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  • Port of Los Angeles - Conflict, Commerce, and the Flight for Control - Book Launch and Lecture

    Thu, Mar 12, 2020 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM

    Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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    Speaker: Geraldine Knatz, PhD, Professor of the Practice of Policy and Engineering at USC

    Talk Title: Port of Los Angeles - Conflict, Commerce, and the Flight for Control - Book Launch and Lecture

    Abstract: With years of research, 200 maps and images, Knatz shapes and insightful story of the Port of Los Angeles, from its early entrepreneurs to the city's business and political leadership, and the inevitable conflicts that arose between them. Power moves disguised as bureaucratic banalities, jurisdictional feuds, and outright warfare - it is all here.

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    More Information: Knatz Book Launch and Lecture.jpg

    Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 101

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Salina Palacios

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