Secondary Sources
Bunker Hill
Bunker Hill: A Tale of Urban Removal. Directed by Greg Kimble. Milestone Films, 2009. Alexander Street. https://video-alexanderstreet-com.libproxy2.usc.edu/watch/bunker-hill.
Chiland, Elijah. “Take a Drive through Downtown LA-Then and Now.” Curbed LA, January 11, 2019. https://la.curbed.com/2016/7/20/12231150/downtown-los-angeles-vintage-footage-bunker-hill.
Dawson, Jim. “Los Angeles’s Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction’s Mean Streets and Film Noir’s Ground Zero!” 2012.
Jones, Stephen. “The Bunker Hill Story: Welfare, Redevelopment, and Housing Crisis in Postwar Los Angeles.” Master’s thesis, The City University of New York, 2017.
Loukaitou-Sideris, A., and G. Sansbury. “Lost Streets of Bunker Hill.” California History, Winter 1995/1996.
Marsak, Nathan. Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir. Angel City Press, 2021.
Marsak, Nathan. “Welcome to On Bunker Hill.” On Bunker Hill. Accessed July 12, 2024. www.onbunkerhill.org.
Martinez, Raul L. “The Bunker Hill Project: A Case Study of Redevelopment in Los Angeles.” Master’s thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973. https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/78379/02162883-MIT.pdf?sequence=2.
Masters, Nathan. “Rediscovering Downtown L.A.’s Lost Neighborhood of Bunker Hill.” KCET, January 19, 2021. https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/rediscovering-downtown-l-a-s-lost-neighborhood-of-bunker-hill.
Napoli, Lisa. “Bunker Hill’s Redevelopment: Urban Travesty or Renaissance?” Curbed LA, November 28, 2018. https://la.curbed.com/2018/11/28/18115002/bunker-hill-towers-redevelopment-history.
Parsons, D. “This Modern Marvel: Bunker Hill, Chavez Ravine and the Politics of Modernism in Los Angeles.” Southern California Quarterly, 1993.
Rice, Christina, Emma Roberts, Merry Ovnick, Nathan Marsak, Donald Spivack, Adrian Scott Fine, and Meredith Drake Reitan. Bunker Hill in the Rearview Mirror: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of an Urban Neighborhood. Photo Friends of the Los Angeles Public Library, 2015.
“Timeline: How Bunker Hill Transformed Los Angeles and Grand Avenue.” Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2019. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-grand-avenue-time-line-2019-htmlstory.html.
Urban Renewal
Ammon, Francesca Russello. Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
Bloch, Stefano. “Considering the Photography of Leonard Nadel.” Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 74 (2012): 76-95. https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2012.0005.
Chronopoulos, Themis. “Robert Moses and the Visual Dimension of Physical Disorder: Efforts to Demonstrate Urban Blight in the Age of Slum Clearance.” Journal of Planning History 13, no. 3 (August 2014): 207-233. https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513213487149.
Ethington, Philip. “Ghost Neighborhoods: Space, Time and Alienation in Los Angeles.” In Looking for Los Angeles: Architecture, Film, Photography and the Urban Landscape, edited by Charles G. Salas and Michael S. Roth, 29-56. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2001.
Gordon, Colin. “Blighting the Way: Urban Renewal, Economic Development, and the Elusive Definition of Blight.” Fordham Urban Law Journal 31, no. 2 (January 2004): 305-338.
Marks, Mara A. “Shifting Ground: The Rise and Fall of the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency.” Southern California Quarterly 86, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 241-290.
Talen, Emily. “Housing Demolition during Urban Renewal.” City & Community 13, no. 3 (2014): 233-253. https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12070.
Teaford, Jon C. “Urban Renewal and Its Aftermath.” Housing Policy Debate 11, no. 2 (2000): 443-465. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2000.9521373.
Thabet, Andrea. “Culture as Urban Renewal: Postwar Los Angeles and the Remaking of Public Space.” PhD diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013.
Housing Informality
Cohen, Lillian. “Los Angeles Rooming-House Kaleidoscope.” American Sociological Review 16, no. 3 (June 1951): 316-326.
Durst, Nicholas J., and Jake Wegmann. “Informal Housing in the United States.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 41, no. 2 (2017): 282-297. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12444.
Friedman, Alice T. “The Way You Do The Things You Do: Writing the History of Houses and Housing.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 58, no. 3 (September 1999): 406-413.
Groth, Paul. Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Harris, Richard. “The End Justified the Means: Boarding and Rooming in a City of Homes, 1890-1951.” Journal of Social History 26, no. 2 (Winter 1992): 331-358.
Harris, Richard. “The Flexible House: The Housing Backlog and the Persistence of Lodging, 1891-1951.” Social Science History 18, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 31-53.
Kwak, Nancy. “Urban Informality in the Global North: A View from Los Angeles.” Esboços 28, no. 47 (January/April 2021): 182-196. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2021.e76639.
Mukhija, Vinit, and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, eds. The Informal American City: Beyond Taco Trucks and Day Labor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014.
Nicolaides, Becky. “From Resourceful to Illegal: The Racialized History of Garage Housing in Los Angeles.” Boom California, January 2019.
Parsons, Don. Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Redlining and the New Deal Era
Gabrielle Esperdy (2004) A taxing photograph: The WPA real property survey of New York City, History of Photography, 28:2, 123-136, DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2004.10441301
Todd M. Michney How the City Survey’s Redlining Maps Were Made: A Closer Look at HOLC’s Mortgagee Rehabilitation Division Journal of Planning History 2022, Vol. 21(4) 316–344DOI: 10.1177/15385132211013361
Rovner, M. (2021). The “Social Science” of Segregation: Between the “Charitable” Surveys of the Progressive Era and the “Appraisal” Surveys of the New Deal Era. Journal of Planning History, 20(4), 326-337. https://doi.org/10.1177/15385132211003481
Los Angeles and Urban Planning
Fogelson, Robert M. The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930 University of California Press, Jun 9, 1993
Hise, G. (1993). Home Building and Industrial Decentralization in Los Angeles: The Roots of the Postwar Urban Region. Journal of Urban History, 19(2), 95-125. https://doi.org/10.1177/009614429301900204