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100			_aBloch, Stefano _947924
245			_aAn autoethnographic account of urban restructuring and neighborhood change in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley/
260			_bsage _c2020
300			_aVol 27, Issue 3, 2020 : ( 379-394 p.).
520			_aSuburbs have long been glossed over by critical urbanists for being culturally, even if not spatially, less than urban. In Los Angeles, it is the San Fernando Valley that has received such treatment as scholars have tended toward the metropolitan basin. In this article, I aim to help re-center the San Fernando Valley as a complex and conflictual cultural landscape through an autoethnographic exploration of four moments of urban restructuring in the Panorama City neighborhood. I provide a personal account of how a succession of events – the 1992 LA Riot, 1993 General Motors Plant closure, 1994 Northridge earthquake, and 1996 dismantling of the Aid for Families with Dependent Children welfare program – led to the disruption and partial destruction of a neighborhood. I situate these moments of crisis within the context of a civil gang injunction and outbreak of abject violence during this time period, which further destabilized the neighborhood and informed my own decision to pick up a gun.
650			_aautoethnography, _952796
650			_a gangs, _952797
650			_aLos Angeles, _952798
650			_aneighborhood change, _952799
650			_aSan Fernando Valley, _952800
650			_a urban restructuring _952801
773	0		_010528 _916510 _dSage publisher 2019 - _tCultural geographies
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/1474474019881997
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