18th Street, 156, 160

42 Little Criminals, 156

1901 Tenement Housing Act, 27

overcongestion, xix, 27

Adams, Jane, 26

Hull House, 26

adaptation, xviii–xix, xxii, xxiv–xxv, xxix, 16, 21, 44–47, 52–53, 99, 102, 104, 116–117, 124, 140–141, 145, 149–150, 166, 178, 196–198, 210–211, 218–221, 223, 225, 230–233, 251–252

affordable housing, xx, xxix, 56, 66, 72, 84–85, 88–93, 95, 182–185, 195, 199, 226, 259

access to, 56, 85, 90, 93, 182–184, 226

funding for or against, 66, 72, 85, 185, 195, 199, 226

increase in, xxix, 85, 89–90, 185, 199, 226

in MacArthur Park, xxix, 56, 66, 89–90, 92, 182–185

agency, xxii, 9, 40

Anthony Giddens, 257

Alatorre, Richard, 63, 65

Alinsky model of organizing, 183

Alvarado Corridor Project, xxvii, 162–163, 166, 168

community-policing, xxvii, 163, 165

Alvarado Transit Corridor Pedestrian Improvement Program, 85

anomaly, xxii, 8–9, 14, 46

arrests, 2, 59, 81–82, 123, 126, 148, 188–191, 154–157, 161, 168–170, 192

art, xiv, 7, 85, 89, 132–133, 139, 213, 215, 246

artifacts, 46, 220

Association of Salvadorans of Los Angeles, 79

atol de elote, 4

Axelrod, Robert, 46–47, 220

Harnessing Complexity, 46

Aztecs, 179, 254

banking, 205–207, 209

banks, 130, 133, 185–186, 195, 200–201, 205–209, 216, 224, 255, 258, 261

barrio, 70, 72, 212, 261

Bay Area Rapid Transit subway (BART), 33

Beck, Charles L. (Charlie), 58

benefits, xvii, xix, xxi–xxii, 8–9, 17, 27, 31, 41, 48, 69–70, 77, 79, 92, 94, 100–101, 107, 113–114, 116–117, 119, 128, 143, 145, 151, 181, 197, 203, 205, 209–210, 225, 250, 255

Berkeley Committee on the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS), 236

Black Shadow, 158

blight, vii, 15–19, 21–23, 25–27, 29–31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 79, 84, 93, 99, 111, 145, 190, 202, 210, 224–225, 251, 255