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Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America

Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America Journal of the American Planning Association 1 2023 | Volume 0 Number 0 Reviews structure race and place, as well as those involved in Building Downtown Los Angeles: The the racialization of place (p. 3). In doing so, Saito draws Politics of Race and Place in Urban our attention to the history of how race shaped place America and how place shaped race in the rebranding and remaking of downtown Los Angeles since 1970. He argues that these processes work together in the cycle Leland Saito of disinvestment and investment of space, causing (2022). Stanford University Press, 266 pages. $28 (paperback) race-neutral policies and redevelopment to build upon Reviewed by Ashley Hernandez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill histories of racialization while reconfiguring racial mean- ings. In other words, redevelopment becomes a tool eland Saito’s most recent that assists in the reproduction of racial and spatial book, Building Downtown inequalities. This explanation directly implicates local Los Angeles: The Politics of policy and development practices, which, although Race and Place in Urban slowly shifting toward greater equity over time, do little America, offers an important ana- to explicitly address the accumulated historical harms of lysis of flagship development and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the American Planning Association Taylor & Francis

Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America

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Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2023 American Planning Association, Chicago, IL.
ISSN
1939-0130
eISSN
0194-4363
DOI
10.1080/01944363.2023.2200119
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Abstract

Journal of the American Planning Association 1 2023 | Volume 0 Number 0 Reviews structure race and place, as well as those involved in Building Downtown Los Angeles: The the racialization of place (p. 3). In doing so, Saito draws Politics of Race and Place in Urban our attention to the history of how race shaped place America and how place shaped race in the rebranding and remaking of downtown Los Angeles since 1970. He argues that these processes work together in the cycle Leland Saito of disinvestment and investment of space, causing (2022). Stanford University Press, 266 pages. $28 (paperback) race-neutral policies and redevelopment to build upon Reviewed by Ashley Hernandez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill histories of racialization while reconfiguring racial mean- ings. In other words, redevelopment becomes a tool eland Saito’s most recent that assists in the reproduction of racial and spatial book, Building Downtown inequalities. This explanation directly implicates local Los Angeles: The Politics of policy and development practices, which, although Race and Place in Urban slowly shifting toward greater equity over time, do little America, offers an important ana- to explicitly address the accumulated historical harms of lysis of flagship development and

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Journal of the American Planning AssociationTaylor & Francis

Published: Jul 3, 2023

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