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Book Review

Fritz B. Burns and the Development of Los Angeles: The Biography of a Community Developer and Philanthropist. By James Thomas Keane. (Los Angeles: Loyola Marymount University and the Historical Society of Southern California, 2001. 287 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00.)

     In 1962, Californian singer-songwriter Malvina Reynolds published "Little Boxes," a ditty that satirized sprawling residential developments full of "houses made of ticky tacky" that "all look just the same." This readable volume examines the career of one of the pioneering creators of those "little boxes," Fritz Burns. The author, a research fellow at Loyola Marymount University, surveys Burns's long career and persuasively argues for his significance as a pioneer of mass-produced tract housing, a "visionary of subdivisions" and more. . . .

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