This book masterfully extends the previous, excellent analysis
of Allen and Turner’s in the “The Ethnic Quilt.”
Their latest effort offers new insights into the shifting demographic
landscape of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Like watching
sausage being made, LA’s changing ethnic mix has not always
been pleasant to view. Allen and Turner convincingly demonstrate
that diversity is nothing to be “celebrated” or “promoted,”
but is simply a fact of life. This impressive new piece of scholarship
will appeal to those seeking to understand ethnic distribution
and transformation in an area that contains the most radically
“diverse” population in America.”.

Joe R. Hicks, Executive Director
of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture,
former Executive Director of the Los Angeles City
Human Relations Commission

This new atlas is the state-of-the-art description of
dramatic changes underway in Los Angeles.
It will soon be required reading at many universities.

Dowell Myers, Professor
Department of Urban Planning and Demography
University of Southern California

Anyone who wants to know how US metropolitan
areas are going to look in 20 years time should read
this fascinating, informed and carefully researched
monograph about Southern California.
Using Los Angeles as a lens, Allen and Turner have examined
the future of the American city and mapped the evolving ethnic
complexity of one of the world's most dynamic cities.

William A.V. Clark, Professor
Department of Geography
University of California, Los Angeles

Another cartographical feast .
Allen and Turner spread "The Ethnic Quilt" to the 5-county
region and map its shifting geographies using the latest census
data. More than an updating, "Changing Faces, Changing Places"
charts new ground for all those interested in the population
dynamics of Southern California.

Edward W. Soja, Professor
Department of Urban Planning
University of California, Los Angeles

James Allen and Eugene Turner have done it again.
"Changing Faces, Changing Places" provides the most
authoritative and comprehensive overview of the demographic
changes in Southern California. In addition to their spectacular
maps and illustrations, the authors bring their decades of experience
and knowledge to interpret and analyze the impact of population
shifts on transforming the neighborhoods, communities, and cities
of Southern California. Like their ground-breaking work "The Ethnic Quilt",
this is an essential reference volume for anyone who is interested
in the present and future of this important and dynamic region.

Edward J.W. Park, Director
Asian Pacific American Studies Program (APAM)
Loyola Marymount University