Hazardous Metropolis

Hazardous Metropolis

Author: Jared Orsi

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2004-01-05

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0520238508

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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.