New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future

摘要

Given the recurrent debates about the relative merits of New York or Los Angeles in modelling an urban future in the US, David Halle and Andrew Beveridge's edited volume, New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future, is a timely publication. There are 19 chapters, five of them wholly or partly authored by the editors Halle and Beveridge, which cover demographic, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental and planning issues. The book follows an earlier volume edited by Halle in 2003, New York & Los Angeles: Politics, Society and Culture: A Comparative View. The editors promise an interdisciplinary approach by experts in various fields and note that this is the first book to use the 2010 census and will be coordinated with Beveridge's Social Explorer to offer online tools for comparing cities and metropolitan regions.