Public Responses to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the Transformation of the Urban Public Sphere for the 21st Century

• In Event: U.S. American Civic Cultures and Ideals

Abstract

This paper suggests that the social changes, realities, and tensions in Los Angeles that became publicized by the 1992 Riots had profound implications on the public sphere of the city and produced public discourses that all modern cities need to pay attention to when considering dimensions of a 21st century urban public sphere. Six threads of public discourses are focused on from assessing public responses, and how a changing urban public sphere is implicated.

Author

• George Allen Onas Villanueva, University of Southern California