URBS 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, Rodney King
28 Oct 2016
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Late 1960s - early 1970s many workers were fired and would never find jobs again. Changes started occurring from late 1940s through the present time. Post modern: the movement in contemporary scholarship that emphasizes fragmentation and de-centering both in intellectual thought and material projects. Movie chinatown starring jack nicholson and faye dunaway (tells a story of how water shaped the creation of los angeles and of the entire region in which it lies. People in control of the water did shady and illegal practices to sustain it) Postmodern metropolis: a postindustrial city characterized by social fragmentation. Transportation played a major role in expansion and development. Los angeles became a magnet for people who wanted to travel and relocate themselves and their families especially after wwii. Rodney king mercilessly beaten by la police officers, carceral city . After this incident, people assumed la as the place where the poor were beaten.
