Becky M. Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965, Photographs by Robbert Flick. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2002, 1960, 1960s, 1950, 1940, 1939, 1930, 1908
". . . In 1908, Los Angeles passed the first major land-use zoning law in the United States, eight years before the more famous New York City measure . . . reserved the west side for 'higher class residential areas.'" p. 50