The Importance of Place and Place-Makers in the Life of a Los Angeles Community : What Gentrification Erases from Echo Park

This article looks at restaurants as urban forms of public space in which ethnic entrepreneurs act as place-makers. The author highlights El Nayarit, a Mexican restaurant in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles, from 1947 to the present, as a nucleus of a community where racial, ethnic, class, and g...

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Veröffentlicht in:Southern California Quarterly. - University of California Press. - 97(2015), 1, Seite 69-111
1. Verfasser: Molina, Natalia (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Veröffentlicht: 2015
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Southern California Quarterly
Schlagworte:racialized space Mexican restaurants gentrification Echo Park Business Social sciences Behavioral sciences Arts