Edward Soja, UCLA professor emeritus of urban planning, has published a new book, “My Los Angeles: From Urban Restructuring to Regional Urbanizations.”
Soja's book addresses Los Angeles' socio-economic landscape in the wake of the 1992 civil unrest, which Soja sees as a consequence of decades of economic decline and racial isolation. The key factor to future growth, he says, will be networks of employment, transportation and culture that serve all areas of the city and empower stronger communities and individuals.
In a review of the book for the Los Angeles Times, Jon Christensen, UCLA faculty member and editor of the quarterly, Boom: A Journal of California, wrote, "In the next 30 to 40 years, as the worldwide population grows from 7 billion to 9 billion and possibly more, all of that growth effectively will be absorbed in cities, doubling the urban population on Earth. That means the urban built environment will double too. The shape of those urban spaces, as Edward Soja shows, will fundamentally shape the future."
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