Summer home settings as cultural landscapes: Southern California in the 1930's

摘要: This article analyzes a selective slice of this rapidly changing Southern California society. In order to assess the landscape tastes the region's newly-emerging elite, it focuses on summer home preferences small group during 1930's. Its relatively small size notwithstanding, this group is important because their affluence gave them power reshape landscapes of many communities within region and, therefore, tocreate and amplify regional features which were destined diffuse across larger American scene. In succession, paper (1) describes the geography number of elite residents in region, (2) discusses location factors which account for distribution homes, and (3) identifies three particularly significant these summer environments which are used define elements of distinctive character overall cultural geography.