Davenport Institute

Research Reports

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The Changing Face of the San Fernando Valley

Joel Kotkin & Erika Ozuna

2002

FOOTNOTES

1 Kevin Roderick, San Fernando Valley: America's Suburb, Los Angeles Times Books, (Los Angeles:2001) ,p. v

2 Report of Findings on the San Fernando Valley Economy 2001-2002, San Fernando Valley Economic Research Center, California State University, Northridge, 2002, p.61

3 City of Los Angeles Demographics Unit

4 Julie-Anne Boudreau and Roger Keil, "Seceding from Responsibility? Secession Movements in Los Angeles", Urban Studies, September 1, 2001

5 San Fernando Valley Economic Research Center, Report of Findings on the San Fernando Valley Economy: 2000–2001 (Northridge, CA: California State University/Northridge, n.d.), p. 7.

6 A sixth city, Universal City, also exists but does not have any residents and occupies less than one square mile.

7 Lawrence C. Jorgensen, "Chiniginich is Very Angry", in Lawrence C. Jorgensen,editor, San Fernando Valley: Past and Present, Pacific Rim Research (Los Angeles:1982), pp.30-36

8 Jorgensen, op. cit., p. 54

9 Jackson Mayers, The San Fernando Valley, John D. McIntyre, (Walnut,California), date tk

10 Lawrence C. Jorgensen, "The Secularization of the Valley", in Jorgensen, ed., op.cit., pp.72-76

11 W.W. Robinson, Southern California Local History, edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Historical Society of Los Angeles, (Los Angeles: 1993), pp.148-149

12 Jorgensen, "The Secularization of the Valley", in Jorgensen, op.cit., pp 77-80

13 Jorgensen, "The Secularization of the Valley", in Jorgensen, op.cit.,, pp.81-86

14 Jorgensen, "The Secularization of the Valley", in Jorgensen, op.cit.,, pp.88-91; Roderick,op.cit., pp.42-3

15 Robinson, op. cit., pp.156-159; Roderick, op.cit., p.40

16 Robinson, op.cit., pp.159-162;

17 Kevin Starr, "Material Dreams:Southern California Through the 1920s", Oxford University Press, (New York:1990), p.57

18 Jorgensen, "Securalization", op.cit., Lawrence Jorgensen, ed., The San Fernando Valley: Past and Present, Book II (Los Angeles: Pacific Rim Research, 1982), p. 90.

19 Lawrence c. Jorgensen, "Subdivisions and Subdividers": in Jorgensen.ed, op. cit.,pp..144-149

20 Roderick, op.cit, p.53

21 Starr, op. cit,,pp.70-71

22 Roderick, op. cit., p.74, 108

23 Roderick, op. cit., pp.110-114

24 Jackson Mayers, "The San Fernando Valley", tk Press, (Walnut, California: 1970) ,p.172

25 Roderick, op. cit., p.i

26 Allen J. Scott, "High Technology Industrial Development in the San Fernando Valley and Ventura County", in The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the 20th Century, University of California Press, (Berkeley:1990), pp.281-284

27 Mayers, op.cit..p.190

28 Scott, "High Technology Industrial Development in the San Fernando Valley and Ventura County", in Scott and Soja, op.cit., pp. 290- 293

29 Roderick, op. cit., p.186; Mayers, op. cit., p. 214

30 Mike Davis, City of Quartz, (Verso:Los Angeles), 1990, pp.184-185

31 Daryll Kennedy, "Suburbia Lost," Los Angeles Times, October 24, 1999.

32 First Annual Survey of the San Fernando Valley (Van Nuys, CA: Economic Alliance of San Fernando Valley, 2000).

33 San Fernando Valley Research Center, Report of Findings on the San Fernando Valley Economy, p. 48; "Changing Face of the Valley," Los Angeles Daily News, November 19, 1999; William A.V. Clark, "Residential Patterns:Avoidance, Assimilation and Succession" in Ethnic Los Angeles,edited by Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Borzorgmehr, (Russell Sage:New York), 1996, p.130

34 Clark, Katzman, McKinzie, and Watson, Three Generations in Twentieth Century America, p. 469.

35 USC News Service, "Study Projects Rising Poverty in L.A. Despite Immigrants' Upward Mobility," January 1997; Karen De Witt, "Wave of Suburban Growth is Being Fed by Minorities," New York Times, August 14, 1994.

36 Technological Reshaping of America, p. 93. San Fernando Valley 25

37 Burt Hubbard, "State's Hispanic Population Grows 43%—Denver's Suburbs Become More Diverse During the '90s," Rocky Mountain News, August 30, 2000.

38 Michael M. Phillips, "More Suburbs Find City Ills Don't Respect City Limits," Wall Street Journal, November 13, 1997.

39 Richard P. Nathan, "Where the Minority Middle Class Lives," Wall Street Journal, May 22, 1991; Alan Achkar, "Suburb's Plight," Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 23, 1998.

40 James Allen, demographer, California State University/Northridge, interview with author.

41 David W. Chen, "Luxury Immigration: New Arrivals Move Directly to the Suburbs," New York Times, December 29, 1999.

42 James P. Allen and Eugene Turner, The Ethnic Quilt:Population Diversity in Southern California,Center for Geographical Studies, California State University, Northridge, 1997, pp.58-59; p.70, p.123, p.152

43 San Fernando Valley Almanac 2000, p. 60., p.160

44 Report of Findings on the San Fernando Valley Economy 2001-2002, San Fernando Valley Economic Research Center, California State University, Northridge, 2002, p.61

45 Patrick McGreevy, "Building a Case in the Northeast Valley," Los Angeles Times, January 10, 2000.

46 Patrick McGreevy and Hillary MacGregor, "Lack of Homes Plagues a Corner of Suburbia," Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2000.

47 San Fernando Valley Research Center, Report of Findings on the San Fernando Valley Economy, p. 48.

48 San Fernando Valley Almanac 2000, p. 62.

49 Ibid., p. 62.

50 Report of Findings on the San Fernando Valley Economy 2001-2002, San Fernando Valley Economic Research Center, California State University, Northridge, 2002, p.61

51 Peter Behr, "By the Numbers: Divided Over Immigrants' Impact—One Study Sees Threat to the Suburbs, Another Sees Successes," Washington Post, Feb. 7, 2000.

52 Karen Robinson-Jacobs, "Job Market in Valley Surged, New Study Says," Los Angeles Times, November 3, 2000.

53 Shirley Svorny, Professor of Economics, California State University/Northridge, interview with author. ,

54 Steve Carney, "Just Four of the County's Richest Live in the Valley," Los Angeles Daily News, May 23, 2000; James P. Allen and Eugene Turner, The Ethnic Quilt:Population Diversity in Southern California,Center for Geographical Studies, California State University, Northridge, 1997, p.31

55 San Fernando Valley Almanac, pp. 50–54.

56 San Fernando Valley Economic Research Center, Report of Findings on the San Fernando Valley, 2000– 2001, p. 22.

57 Ibid., p. 23.

58 Ibid., p. 25.

59 Don Lee, "Housing Crunch Asians, Latinos Create a New Market Model", Los Angeles Times, August 30, 1998

60 Jeffrey M. Humphreys, "Buying Power at the Beginning of a New Century: Projections for 2000 and 2001", The Selig Center for Economic Growth, University of Georgia, July-August 2000

61 Jeffrey M. Humphreys, "Buying Power at the Beginning of a New Century: Projections for 2000 and 2001", The Selig Center for Economic Growth, University of Georgia, July-August 2000

62 Allen and Turner, op. cit., p. 208

63 Dear, Michael, "Melting-Pot Blues", Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2001

64 source: Los Angeles Police Department: Citywide Gang Crime Summary, October 2001; Andrew Blankstein and Zanto Peabody, "Slayings Rise in City for 2nd Year", Los Angeles Times, January 9, 2002

65 Stanford 9 Test Results for School Districts Serving the San Fernando Valley

66 Jennifer Seuss, "The San Fernando Valley:Education, Innovation and Improvement", paper submitted as final thesis for Pepperdine University School of Public Policy

67 Talar Aslanian, "The San Fernando Valley: Meeting the Needs of the Elderly", paper submitted as final thesis for Pepperdine University School of Public Policy; Gregory Wilcox, "Home Prices Soar", Daily News, May 16, 2000; San Fernando Valley Almanac 2000, Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley, 2001, p.51

68 "City of Glendale 2000-2005 Affordable Housing Study", Housing Authority of the City of Glendale, May 31, 2000

69 Patrick J. McDonnell, "Jobs Exist for Immigrants", Los Angeles Times,May 4, 1998; George Borjas, "The US Takes the Wrong Immigrants", Wall Street Journal, September 5, 1990

70 Jiobu, Robert M., Ethnicity & Assimilation: Blacks, Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, Mexicans, Vietnamese, and Whites, State University of New York Press, 1988

71 Assimilation may be called sometimes acculturation or Americanization.

72 Gregory Rodriguez, "The Emerging Latino Middle Class", Pepperdine University Institute for Public Policy, October 1996

73 City of Los Angeles Demographics Unit; Census 2000

74 Karen Speicher, "Role of Religious Leaders in the Valley Secession Debate", final paper for Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, San Fernando Valley seminar, 2001

75 Luci Stephens, "The San Fernando Valley:The Festive Valley", final paper for Pepperdine Univ ersity School of Public Policy, San Fernando Valley seminar, 2001

Cover Photo: City of Glendale; Valley Panorama: California State University Northridge – University Library San Fernando Valley History Digital Library http://digital-library.csun.edu/Copyright.html Van Nuys, CA; Color Photography by Max Mahan (H-1712) Donor: Dr. Tom Reilly
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