William Deverell, professor of history at the University of Southern California and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California Greg Hise is an urban historian in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction: The Metropolitan Nature of Los Angeles
1
(12)
GREG HISE AND WILLIAM DEVERELL
Part One: Analysis of Place
13
(54)
Folio One: Southern California, 1900
16
(7)
WILLIAM McCLUNG
1. Political Ecology of Prehistoric Los Angeles
23
(15)
L. MARK RAAB
2. The Los Angeles Prairie
38
(14)
PAULA M. SCHIFFMAN
3. Ranchos and the Politics of Land Claims
52
(15)
KAREN CLAY AND WERNER TROESKEN
Part Two: Land Use and Governance
67
(134)
Folio Two: Lost Landscapes/Past Lives
71
(7)
TERRY HARKNESS
4. Pollution and Public Policy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
78
(17)
DANIEL JOHNSON
5. Beaches versus Oil in Greater Los Angeles
95
(20)
PAUL SABIN
6. Who Killed the Los Angeles River?
115
(20)
BLAKE GUMPRECHT
7. Flood Control Engineering in the Urban Ecosystem
135
(17)
JARED ORSI
8. Private Sector Planning for the Environment
152
(15)
TOM SITTON
9. Zoning and Environmental Inequity in the Industrial East Side
167
(12)
CHRISTOPHER G. BOONE
10. Los Angeles Against the Mountains
179
(22)
JOHN McPHEE
Part Three: Nature and Culture
201
(87)
Folio Three: Transitions in Southern California Landscape Photography, 1900-1940
204
(16)
MICHAEL DAWSON
11. Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in LA
220
(25)
JENNIFER PRICE
12. A Garden of Worldly Delights
245
(22)
DOUGLAS C. SACKMAN
13. Changing Attitudes toward Animals among Chicanas and Latinas in Los Angeles
267
(21)
UNNA LASSITER AND JENNIFER WOLCH
Epilogue: The Present as History
288
(7)
ROBERT GOTTLIEB
Notes
295
(42)
List of Contributors
337
(4)
Index
341
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