Planning and Imagining Los Angeles

Planifier et imaginer Los Angeles / Planning and Imagining Los Angeles

Journée d’étude, 15 octobre 2021

Salle D040, Maison de la Recherche de Sorbonne Université

28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris

Programme

09h30 : Introduction

Pause café

10h30 : Frédéric Leriche (Université de Versailles Saint Quentin), Mark Drayse (California State University, Fullerton), Donald Gauthier (Los Angeles Valley College) : “Metropolis and Environment: the case of Los Angeles”

11h00 : Carolin Görgen (Sorbonne Université) : “It must be in the climate” — The Los Angeles Camera Club and regional boosterism, c. 1900”

11h30 : Yves Figueiredo (Sorbonne Université) : “Planning Pasadena: Water, Forestry, and a Lesson in Conservation at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”

Déjeuner

14h30 : Renaud Le Goix (Université de Paris) : “Developing, densifying, financializing suburbia: post-global financial crisis dynamics of investments and housing regimes in the Los Angeles region”

15h00 : Thibaut Clément (Sorbonne Université) : “From Lakewood to Tax Canyon: shopping malls, fiscal de-annexation, and the 'balkanization’" of the Los Angeles area”

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16h-17h : Table ronde, conclusions