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RECORD NUMBER: 1 OF 2Main Title | Hazardous metropolis : flooding and urban ecology in Los Angeles / | ||||||||||||||||
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Author | Orsi, Jared, | ||||||||||||||||
Publisher | University of California Press, | ||||||||||||||||
Year Published | 2004 | ||||||||||||||||
OCLC Number | 51297217 | ||||||||||||||||
ISBN | 0520238508 (alk. paper); 9780520238503 (alk. paper) | ||||||||||||||||
Subjects | Flood control--California--Los Angeles ; Flood control--Government policy--California--Los Angeles ; Urban ecology (Sociology)--California--Los Angeles ; Overstromingen ; Waterhuishouding ; Stedelijke ontwikkeling ; Los Angeles ; Urban ecology--California--Los Angeles | ||||||||||||||||
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Collation | xiii, 276 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. | ||||||||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-265) and index. |
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Contents Notes | Water in Los Angeles: a portrait of an urban ecosystem -- 1. City of a thousand rivers: the emergence of an urban ecosystem, 1884-1914 -- 2. A centralized authority and a comprehensive plan: response to the floods, 1914-1917 -- 3. A weir to do man's bidding: the great San Gabriel Dam fiasco, 1917-1929 -- 4. A more effective scouring agent: the New Year's Eve debris flood and the collapse of local flood control, 1930-1934 -- 5. The sun is shining over southern California: the politics of federal flood control in Los Angeles, 1935-1969 -- 6. Necessary but not sufficient: storms, environmentalism, and new visions for flood control, 1969-2001 -- The historical structure of disorder: urban ecology in Los Angeles and beyond. |