Hazardous Metropolis : Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles /

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Orsi, Jared (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2004]
Temas:
Flood control > Government policy > California > Los Angeles.
Flood control > California > Los Angeles.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > California > Los Angeles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
american west.
california.
city planning.
dams.
debris dams.
disaster prep.
earth sciences.
ecosystem.
engineering.
environmental history.
environmentalism.
flood control basin.
flood control.
flooding.
geography.
government policy.
infrastructure.
la canada valley.
los angeles river.
los angeles.
natural disaster.
nature.
new years eve debris flood.
nonfiction.
paved river channels.
politics.
san gabriel dam.
science.
southern california.
storms.
sustainability.
technology.
urban ecology.
urban.
us west.
water.
waterways.
weir.
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