{"product_id":"the-los-angeles-plaza-sacred-and-contested-space","title":"The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space","description":"\u003cp\u003e2008  Gold Award in Californiana  California Book Awards  Commonwealth Club of California 2010  NACCS Book Award  National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies City plazas worldwide are centers of cultural expression and artistic display. They are settings for everyday urban life where daily interactions  economic exchanges  and informal conversations occur  thereby creating a socially meaningful place at the core of a city. At the heart of historic Los Angeles  the Plaza represents a quintessential public space where real and imagined narratives overlap and provide as many questions as answers about the development of the city and what it means to be an Angeleno. The author  a social and cultural historian who specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Los Angeles  is well suited to explore the complex history and modern-day relevance of the Los Angeles Plaza. From its indigenous and colonial origins to the present day  Estrada explores the subject from an interdisciplinary and multiethnic perspective  delving into the pages of local newspapers  diaries and letters  and the personal memories of former and present Plaza residents  in order to examine the spatial and social dimensions of the Plaza over an extended period of time. The author contributes to the growing historiography of Los Angeles by providing a groundbreaking analysis of the original core of the city that covers a long span of time  space  and social relations. He examines the impact of change on the lives of ordinary people in a specific place  and how this change reflects the larger story of the city.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986025574453,"sku":"ByrdShop_0292717555","price":67.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780292717558.jpg?v=1770882184","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-los-angeles-plaza-sacred-and-contested-space","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}