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.

Geomorphological Hazards in Los Angeles
Geomorphological Hazards in Los Angeles

Author: R.U. Cooke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-20

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1000385310

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This book, first published in 1984, deals authoritatively with the nature and management of slope failures and sediment movement and their impact on the hazardous landscape of Los Angeles county. Bringing together for the first time a wide range of information derived from field observations, interviews, manuscript records, local agency reports and published sources, the book presents an analysis of the ways in which a rapidly developing metropolis has come to terms with complex geomorphological hazards. In particular, the events accompanying the major storms of 1914, 1934, 1969 and 1978 are reconstructed in detail.