Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles (2003)(1st ed.)(en)(289s)

✍ Scribed by Jared Orsi

• Book ID: 127451234
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 7 MB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library
• ISBN: 0520238508

✦ Synopsis

An fascinating history of flood control efforts in Los Angeles from the 1870s to the present, showing how engineering has continually failed to contain nature. This book teaches us to think of cities as ecosystems.

✦ Subjects

Урбоэкология