First published in 1944,
The Boom of the Eighties is a companion volume to
The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California 1850-80 by Robert Glass Cleland.
Boom takes the story forward from the early days of Anglo settlement of the region in the nineteenth century to the period when the immigration explosion created the Southern California of the twentieth century.
The 1880s were remarkable in Southern California history for a land boom of unprecedented proportions. In the decades after the Civil War, the great ranchos of Southern California were breaking up, and vine and citrus culture gradually replaced the Spanish-Mexican pastoral economy. The arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1876 increased immigration, and prospective settlers swarmed in from most of the United States and many countries of Europe.
Millions of dollars changed hands in realty transactions: fortunes were made and lost. The city of Los Angeles, nucleus of the boom, increased in size by 500 percent. Many new suburban towns were incorporated. Where once cattle had grazed on the Mexican ranchos, the American citizen built trolley lines, founded banks, and irrigated orange groves.
Author: Glenn S. Dumke
Hardcover:
336 pages
Company: Huntington Library Press
(1991-01-01)
ISBN: 0873280032
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Urban and suburban growth is a burning local issue for communities across the United States and many other parts of the world. Concerns include protecting habitats, high costs of infrastructure, social inequalities, traffic congestion and more intangible worries about ”quality of life.” Citizens pressure public officials to intensify development regulations, flying in the face of local ”growth machines.” Builders and growth boosters oppose regulation as unfair and bad for local economies. Based on a systematic comparative study of urban areas in Southern California, this book provides a much-needed examination of the true impacts of local development controls, including the ways that they have and have not made a difference. The authors draw general implications for communities elsewhere and how to better understand theories of growth and urban governance.
Author: Kee Warner, Harvey Molotch
Hardcover:
216 pages
Company: Westview Press
(1999-11-04)
ISBN: 0813368464
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Whether you want to buy or sell a home this book covers it all. You will learn how to value your home, search for homes on the Internet, interview prospective RealtorsŪ, purchase investment property and more.. It is both a primer for existing agents, as well as a reference, and guide for buyers, or sellers.
Author: Ed Mixon
Paperback:
164 pages
Company: Gabriel Publications (CA)
(2005-12-30)
ISBN: 1891689649
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