Blue Sky Metropolis

by Westwick, Peter J.

• ISBN13: 9780873282499
• ISBN10: 0873282493
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-04
• Publisher: Huntington Library Pr

Summary

Why did Southern California become the aerospace capital of the world? What were the consequences of this development for the region, for the nation, and for aerospace itself? Featuring essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars and writers, this volume investigates the intersection of aerospace and Southern California through the lenses of anthropology, history of science and technology, labor, business, ethnicity and gender, architecture, and the environment.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Photoessay: An Album of Early Southern California Aviation	p. 15
The Human Element
Lost in Aerospace	p. 37
Cold Warrior's Daughter	p. 45
The Work
Robert E. Gross and the Rise of Lockheed: The Creative Tension between Engineering and Finance	p. 57
Los Angeles Aircraft Workers and the Consolidation of Cold War Politics	p. 79
The Vanishing Act: Stealth Airplanes and Cold War Southern California	p. 105
Culture
Spaces for the Space Age: William Pereira's Aerospace Modernism	p. 127
Aerospace and Hollywood: How Computer Animation Went from Space to Cineplex	p. 159
From L5 to X Prize: California's Alternative Space Movement	p. 171
Communities
Engineering a New Space: Chinese American Scientists and Engineers in Aerospace in Southern California	p. 197
The Air Force and the Chumash: The "Curse of Slick-6"	p. 215
Geography
Aerospace in the Rest of California: The View from Silicon Valley	p. 227
Blueprinting the Regional City: The Urban and Environmental Legacies of the Air Industry in Southern California	p. 247
Afterword	p. 275
Selected Bibliography on Southern California Aerospace	p. 287
Contributors	p. 295
Index	p. 297
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