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Orsi writes that in 1927 the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce commissioned the Olmsted Brothers and Harland Bartholomew to develop a comprehensive public parks and recreation plan. This plan was never embraced because it called for a new governmental entity run largely outside of the reach of existing political channels. The power brokers did not want to cede any of their power.
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For example, in discussing the history of the affluent coastal community of La Jolla, Ford notes its lack of diversity. Surprisingly, he neglects to discuss one of the primary reasons for this, which was the enforcement of restrictive covenants up until the founding of the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla in the 1950s.
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Many of the existing histories are more descriptive in nature. The Journal of San Diego History, for example, is a treasure trove of narratives that document the important people, events, and neighborhoods in San Diego. The journal offers an invaluable starting point for research on the region.
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Mike Davis, Kelly Mayhew, and Jim Miller's noir history of San Diego, Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See (New York: New Press, 2003), has received a considerable amount of attention. Others scholars conducting interesting research on San Diego's urban history include Amy Bridges, Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), Nico Calavita's numerous pieces on housing, Abraham Shragge's scholarship on the military influence, and Steve Erie with his forthcoming book, Paradise Plundered: Fiscal Crisis and Political Turmoil in San Diego. Perhaps one of the best pieces on urban planning in San Diego is Donald Appleyard and Kevin Lynch's Temporary Paradise: A Look at the Special Landscape in the San Diego Region (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 1974).