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Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles Jared Orsi
Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles
Jared Orsi
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.
289 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 8 maps
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 5, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520238503 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 316 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 28 mm · 590 g |