Hazardous Metropolis

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ISBN: 9780520238503 | 0520238508
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/1/2004

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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.

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List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Prologue. Water in Los Angeles: A Portrait of an Urban Ecosystem	1	(10)
1. City of a Thousand Rivers: The Emergence of an Urban Ecosystem, 1884-1914	11	(25)
2. A Centralized Authority and a Comprehensive Plan: Response to the Floods, 1914-1917	36	(19)
3. A Weir to Do Man's Bidding: The Great San Gabriel Dam Fiasco, 1917-1929	55	(20)
4. A More Effective Scouring Agent: The New Year's Eve Debris Flood and the Collapse of Local Flood Control, 1930-1934	75	(27)
5. The Sun Is Shining over Southern California: The Politics of Federal Flood Control in Los Angeles, 1935-1969	102	(27)
6. Necessary but Not Sufficient: Storms, Environmentalism, and New Visions for Flood Control, 1969-2001	129	(36)
Epilogue. The Historical Structure of Disorder: Urban Ecology in Los Angeles and Beyond	165	(20)
Notes	185	(52)
Bibliography	237	(30)
Index	267

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