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After the Unrest: Ten Years of Rebuilding Los Angeles Following the Trauma of 1992

William Fulton: April 22, 2002; Running Time: 01:30:18

About the Lecture

About the Lecture

In addition to dealing with natural disasters, Los Angeles has repeatedly had to deal with social and civic unrest over the past 40 years-most recently in 1992, when widespread unrest rattled a region already afflicted with floods, fires, earthquakes, and a recession. The past decade has seen renewed efforts to unify the city and revitalize long-distressed section of central and south-central L.A. But have improvements really been made? And however resilient it may be socially and economically, can Los Angeles remain unified enough politically to continue to function as a single city?

Lecture Details

Location: Room 10-485

About the Speaker

William Fulton

President of Solimar Research Group, Inc. Journalist, urban planner, researcher, pundit, and best-selling author

William Fulton is a journalist, urban planner, researcher, pundit, and best-selling author. He is president of Solimar Research Group, Inc., a public policy research firm currently engaged in projects with the Brookings Institution, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the Southern California Studies Center at the University of Southern California. Fulton was one of the principal authors of Sprawl Hits The Wall, a report on the future of Los Angeles released in March 2001 by USC. He is economic development columnist for Governing magazine, founding editor of California Planning & Development Report, and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times. His book The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles, was recently released in paperback by Johns Hopkins University Press. His second book The Regional City: Planning For The End of Sprawl, co-authored with Peter Calthorpe, was published in 2001 by Island Press. Fulton holds a BA in Mass Communications from St. Bonaventure University, an MA in Journalism and Public Affairs from The American University, and an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA.