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Jan Lin has written both a meticulous and a passionate documentation of the long waves of investment, migration, and cultural expression that have shaped Northeast Los Angeles since the heyday of Anglo urbanization. From bohemianism and bike lanes, to tacos and lattes, Lin shows how embedded cultural patterns and determined community activists keep the vitality of the streets even in our most automobile-dependent city. -Sharon Zukin,Author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places In this heartfelt and meticulously researched history of the boulevard-lined neighborhoods of Northeast L.A., Jan Lin has given us a crucial and timely investigation into how local cultural and community movements, together with struggles over the right to the city, shape our contemporary urban landscape...With imaginative theorization and brilliantly clear prose, Lin attends to the contradictions and conflicts of the current moment, as well as new, radical possibilities for a green and equitable city that are now also within sight. -Miriam Greenberg,Co-editor of The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Tactics in an Urban Age

In this heartfelt and meticulously researched history of the boulevard-lined neighborhoods of Northeast L.A., Jan Lin has given us a crucial and timely investigation into how local cultural and community movements, together with struggles over the right to the city, shape our contemporary urban landscapeWith imaginative theorization and brilliantly clear prose, Lin attends to the contradictions and conflicts of the current moment, as well as new, radical possibilities for a green and equitable city that are now also within sight. -- Miriam Greenberg,Co-editor of The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Tactics in an Urban Age Taking Back the Boulevard is exemplary in its ability to weave the strands of structure and agency together to show how real gentrified spaces are produced. And just as important, such complexity is delivered with clear prose and riveting stories. Although the book focuses on Northeast Los Angeles, its lessons are generalizable. Scholars and students of gentrification would enjoy reading the book and benefit from engaging with its core arguments. It is at once a labour of love by an established urban sociologist and an important contribution to the sprawling literature on the subject. -- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Taking Back the Boulevard is an excellent resource for scholars and researchers who see themselves as public intellectuals, as well as for individuals wishing to engage art and activism in urban communities. The text is accessible, comprehensive, and passionate. Lin offers a stimulating tales for which to approach Northeast L.A., transgenerational activism, and a community's cycles of cultural and economic transition. -- Social Forces Jan Lin has written both a meticulous and a passionate documentation of the long waves of investment, migration, and cultural expression that have shaped Northeast Los Angeles since the heyday of Anglo urbanization. From bohemianism and bike lanes, to tacos and lattes, Lin shows how embedded cultural patterns and determined community activists keep the vitality of the streets even in our most automobile-dependent city. -- Sharon Zukin,Author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

"""Taking Back the Boulevard is exemplary in its ability to weave the strands of structure and agency together to show how real gentrified spaces are produced. And just as important, such complexity is delivered with clear prose and riveting stories. Although the book focuses on Northeast Los Angeles, its lessons are generalizable. Scholars and students of gentrification would enjoy reading the book and benefit from engaging with its core arguments. It is at once a labour of love by an established urban sociologist and an important contribution to the sprawling literature on the subject."" -- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research ""Taking Back the Boulevard is an excellent resource for scholars and researchers who see themselves as public intellectuals, as well as for individuals wishing to engage art and activism in urban communities. The text is accessible, comprehensive, and passionate. Lin offers a stimulating tales for which to approach Northeast L.A., transgenerational activism, and a community’s cycles of cultural and economic transition."" -- Social Forces ""Jan Lin has written both a meticulous and a passionate documentation of the long waves of investment, migration, and cultural expression that have shaped Northeast Los Angeles since the heyday of Anglo urbanization. From bohemianism and bike lanes, to tacos and lattes, Lin shows how embedded cultural patterns and determined community activists keep the vitality of the streets even in our most automobile-dependent city."" -- Sharon Zukin,Author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places ""In this heartfelt and meticulously researched history of the boulevard-lined neighborhoods of Northeast L.A., Jan Lin has given us a crucial and timely investigation into how local cultural and community movements, together with struggles over the right to the city, shape our contemporary urban landscapeWith imaginative theorization and brilliantly clear prose, Lin attends to the contradictions and conflicts of the current moment, as well as new, radical possibilities for a green and equitable city that are now also within sight."" -- Miriam Greenberg,Co-editor of The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Tactics in an Urban Age ""Jan Lin has produced a deeply researched and beautifully written examination of more than a century of neighborhood change and activism in northeast Los Angeles ... Lin aims to take back the boulevards as a topic for urban sociology so that the continuity, growth, change, conflict, and drama of street life get a hearing in their own right. At this he succeeds admirably, and students of urban sociology at all levels have something to learn from entering into the world Lin has so skillfully depicted."" * American Journal of Sociology *"

Jan Lin has written both a meticulous and a passionate documentation of the long waves of investment, migration, and cultural expression that have shaped Northeast Los Angeles since the heyday of Anglo urbanization. From bohemianism and bike lanes, to tacos and lattes, Lin shows how embedded cultural patterns and determined community activists keep the vitality of the streets even in our most automobile-dependent city. -- Sharon Zukin,Author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places Taking Back the Boulevard is an excellent resource for scholars and researchers who see themselves as public intellectuals, as well as for individuals wishing to engage art and activism in urban communities. The text is accessible, comprehensive, and passionate. Lin offers a stimulating tales for which to approach Northeast L.A., transgenerational activism, and a community's cycles of cultural and economic transition. -- Social Forces Taking Back the Boulevard is exemplary in its ability to weave the strands of structure and agency together to show how real gentrified spaces are produced. And just as important, such complexity is delivered with clear prose and riveting stories. Although the book focuses on Northeast Los Angeles, its lessons are generalizable. Scholars and students of gentrification would enjoy reading the book and benefit from engaging with its core arguments. It is at once a labour of love by an established urban sociologist and an important contribution to the sprawling literature on the subject. -- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research In this heartfelt and meticulously researched history of the boulevard-lined neighborhoods of Northeast L.A., Jan Lin has given us a crucial and timely investigation into how local cultural and community movements, together with struggles over the right to the city, shape our contemporary urban landscapeWith imaginative theorization and brilliantly clear prose, Lin attends to the contradictions and conflicts of the current moment, as well as new, radical possibilities for a green and equitable city that are now also within sight. -- Miriam Greenberg,Co-editor of The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Tactics in an Urban Age

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Jan Lin is Professor of Sociology at Occidental College. He is the author of The Power of Urban Ethnic Places: Cultural Heritage and Community Life and co-editor of The Urban Sociology Reader.

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