Winner, Gold Award in Californiana, California Book Awards, Commonwealth Club of California, 2008
NACCS Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, 2010

City plazas worldwide are centers of cultural expression and artistic display. They are settings for everyday urban life where daily interactions, economic exchanges, and informal conversations occur, thereby creating a socially meaningful place at the core of a city.

At the heart of historic Los Angeles, the Plaza represents a quintessential public space where real and imagined narratives...