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Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angelesby Jared Orsi

✍ Scribed by Review by: Carl Abbott

Book ID: 124500285
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 289 KB
Volume: 46
Category: Article
ISSN: 0040-165X
DOI: 10.2307/40060889

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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.