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100			_aDevienne, Elsa _935722
245			_aUrban Renewal by the Sea: Reinventing the Beach for the Suburban Age in Postwar Los Angeles
260			_bSage, _c2019.
300			_aVol 45, Issue 1, 2019 ( 99-125 p.)
520			_aUrban renewal was not just a city phenomenon: it also unfolded on the beaches of coastal metropolises, most spectacularly in Los Angeles where a “beach lobby” made up of public officials, businessmen, and engineers coalesced in the 1930s. In the postwar, they implemented their vision by buying beaches for the public and turning the polluted and eroded strands of the early-twentieth century into modern playgrounds. While they effectively prevented a “white flight” from the beach and successfully reshaped the coastal environment, their efforts also resulted in the erasure of alternative beach communities. By the 1960s, the lobby could rejoice in the enduring popularity of the city’s beaches. Yet new beach advocates used the California public beach tradition as a rallying cry to stop further development. “Beach renewal” in Los Angeles thus challenges both narratives of postwar urban decline and the binary opposition between 1930s conservationists and 1960s environmental activists.
650			_aLos Angeles, _935723
650			_aOcean Park, _930259
650			_a beaches, _935695
650			_aurban renewal, _935724
650			_awhite flight, _930627
650			_aenvironmentalism, _935725
650			_a gay men, _935698
650			_aAfrican Americans, _934149
650			_a Muscle Beach _935699
773	0		_011044 _915476 _dSage, 2019. _tJournal of urban history
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0096144217753379
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