Greg Hise is Associate Professor of Urban History and Planning at the University of Southern California and author of Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (1997) and co-editor of Rethinking Los Angeles (1996). William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (California, 1994), coeditor of California Progressivism Revisited (California, 1994), and coeditor of Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (California, 2001).

• Preface to a Master Plan Private Power, Public Space Parks, Playgrounds and Beaches for the Los Angeles RegionA Report submitted to the Citizens' Committee on Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches, by Olmsted Brothers and Bartholomew and Associates, ConsultantsThe Power of Diction An Interview with Laurie Olin by Greg Hise and William DeverellIndex

Greg Hise is Associate Professor of Urban History and Planning at the University of Southern California and author of Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (1997) and co-editor of Rethinking Los Angeles (1996). William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (California, 1994), coeditor of California Progressivism Revisited (California, 1994), and coeditor of Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (California, 2001).

• Preface to a Master Plan Private Power, Public Space Parks, Playgrounds and Beaches for the Los Angeles RegionA Report submitted to the Citizens' Committee on Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches, by Olmsted Brothers and Bartholomew and Associates, ConsultantsThe Power of Diction An Interview with Laurie Olin by Greg Hise and William DeverellIndex