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Blue sky metropolis : the aerospace century in Southern California
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Blue sky metropolis : the aerospace century in Southern California

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Photoessay: An Album of Early Southern California Aviation / Peter J. Westwick
section I: The Human Element
Lost in Aerospace / D.J. Waldie
Cold Warrior's Daughter / M.G. Lord
section II: The Work
Robert E. Gross and the Rise of Lockheed : The Creative Tension between Engineering and Finance / Sherman N. Mullin
Los Angeles Aircraft Workers and the Consolidation of Cold War Politics / Anita Seth
The Vanishing Act : Stealth Airplanes and Cold War Southern California / Mihir Pandya
section III: Culture
Spaces for the Space Age : William Pereira's Aerospace Modernism / Stuart W. Leslie
Aerospace and Hollywood : How Computer Animation Went from Space to Cineplex / Peter J. Westwick
From L5 to X Prize : California's Alternative Space Movement / W. Patrick McCray
section IV: Communities
Engineering a New Space : Chinese American Scientists and Engineers in Aerospace in Southern California / Zuoyue Wang
The Air Force and the Chumash : The "Curse of Slick-6" / Dwayne A. Day
section V: Geography
Aerospace in the Rest of California : The View from Silicon Valley / Glenn E. Bugos
Blueprinting the Regional City : The Urban and Environmental Legacies of the Air Industry in Southern California / Wade Graham
Afterword / Philip Scranton.

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Blue sky metropolis : the aerospace century in Southern California. ISBN 9780873282499. Published by University of California Press and Huntington Library, San Marino, California in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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