THE PARADIGMATIC CITY: POSTINDUSTRIAL ILLUSION AND THE LOS ANGELES SCHOOL.

Deconstructs the claim of a group of academics and body of scholarship for the centrality of Los Angeles, California as a contemporary global industrial city. Recapitulation of Los Angeles' failure in the traditional Fordist industries; Discussion on real estate, financial services and movies in Los Angeles; Role of Los Angeles in the emergent Asia-dominated Pacific Rim economy.