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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: The best laid plans: Women's clubs and city planning in Los Angeles, 1890--1930 Abstract: In the Spring of 1920 the Los Angeles City Council adopted an ordinance creating a City Planning Commission to oversee the rapid growth of their metropolis. Each of the "17 largest recognized civic groups of the city," including various trade groups and architectural organizations, was to nominate members to the new government agency. A seemingly peculiar contributor to this Project was the Friday Morning Club, a club largely composed of middle-class, nonprofessional women. Like its counterparts elsewhere in Los Angeles and throughout the United States, this club was formed for purposes of self-improvement and betterment. Typically migrants from cities of the East and Midwest, members of Los Angeles' hundreds of women's clubs used their experiences in similar clubs and in settlement houses in their native cities to prevent the social side-effects of industrialization in their newly adopted hometown. By 1920 these women had been active participants in conceiving and shaping the city growing around them for nearly three decades. |
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