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A People's Guide to Orange County

By (author) Elaine Lewinnek, By (author) Gustavo Arellano, By (author) Thuy Vo Dang

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One of the Top Urban Planning Books of 2022,Â Planetizen The full and fascinating guidebook that Orange County deserves. A Peopleâ€™s Guide to Orange County is an alternative tour guide that documents sites of oppression, resistance, struggle, and transformation in Orange County, California. Orange County is more than the well-known images on orange crate labels, the high-profile amusement parks of Disneyland and Knottâ€™s Berry Farm, or the beaches. It is also a unique site of agricultural and suburban history, political conservatism in a liberal state, and more diversity and discordance than its pop-cultural images show. It is a space of important agricultural labor disputes, segregation and resistance to segregation, privatization and the struggle for public space, politicized religions, Cold War global migrations, vibrant youth cultures, and efforts for environmental justice. Memorably, Ronald Reagan called Orange County the place â€œwhere all the good Republicans go to die,â€ but it is also the place where many working-class immigrants have come to live and work in its agricultural, military-industrial, and tourist service economies. Â Orange County is the fifth-most populous county in America. If it were a city, it would be the nationâ€™s third-largest city; if it were a state, its population would make it larger than twenty-oneÂ other states. It attracts 42 million tourists annually. Yet Orange County tends to be a chapter or two squeezed into guidebooks to Los Angeles or Disneyland. Mainstream guidebooks focus on Orange Countyâ€™s amusement parks and wealthy coastal communities, with side trips to palatial shopping malls. These guides skip over Orange Countyâ€™s most heterogeneous halfâ€”the inland space, where most of its oranges were grown alongsideÂ oil derricks that kept the orange groves heated. Existing guidebooks render invisible the diverse people who have labored there. A Peopleâ€™s Guide to Orange County questions who gets to claim Orange Countyâ€™s image, exposing the extraordinary stories embedded in the ordinary landscape.