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Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles
Jared Orsi
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Description for Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles
Hardback. Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a little-known chapter in the city's history - the failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. It offers a lesson - both of things gone wrong and a glimpse of how they might be improved. Num Pages: 289 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFFC; JFSG; RNR; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history - the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 flood control basins, and nearly 500 miles of paved river channels, Southern Californians have discovered that technologically engineered solutions to flooding are just as disaster-prone as natural waterways. Jared Orsi's lively history unravels the strange and often hazardous ways that engineering, politics, and nature have come together in Los Angeles to determine the flow of water. ... Read more
Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history - the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 flood control basins, and nearly 500 miles of paved river channels, Southern Californians have discovered that technologically engineered solutions to flooding are just as disaster-prone as natural waterways. Jared Orsi's lively history unravels the strange and often hazardous ways that engineering, politics, and nature have come together in Los Angeles to determine the flow of water. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520238503
SKU
V9780520238503
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About Jared Orsi
Jared Orsi is Assistant Professor of History at Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
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