Blue sky metropolis : the aerospace century in Southern California / edited by Peter J. Westwick.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-293) and index.

Photoessay: An Album of Early Southern California Aviation / Peter J. Westwick -- section I: The Human Element -- Lost in Aerospace / D.J. Waldie -- Cold Warrior's Daughter / M.G. Lord -- section II: The Work -- Robert E. Gross and the Rise of Lockheed : The Creative Tension between Engineering and Finance / Sherman N. Mullin -- Los Angeles Aircraft Workers and the Consolidation of Cold War Politics / Anita Seth -- The Vanishing Act : Stealth Airplanes and Cold War Southern California / Mihir Pandya -- section III: Culture -- Spaces for the Space Age : William Pereira's Aerospace Modernism / Stuart W. Leslie -- Aerospace and Hollywood : How Computer Animation Went from Space to Cineplex / Peter J. Westwick -- From L5 to X Prize : California's Alternative Space Movement / W. Patrick McCray -- section IV: Communities -- Engineering a New Space : Chinese American Scientists and Engineers in Aerospace in Southern California / Zuoyue Wang -- The Air Force and the Chumash : The "Curse of Slick-6" / Dwayne A. Day -- section V: Geography -- Aerospace in the Rest of California : The View from Silicon Valley / Glenn E. Bugos -- Blueprinting the Regional City : The Urban and Environmental Legacies of the Air Industry in Southern California / Wade Graham -- Afterword / Philip Scranton.