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Hazardous Metropolis : Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles /
Despite having 114 debris dams, 5 flood control basins & nearly 500 miles of paved river channels, Los Angeles still struggles to cope with the threat of flash flooding. Orsi advances a new paradigm - the urban ecosystem - for understanding the city's complex & unpredictable waterways.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Hazardous Metropolis : |b Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles / |c Jared Orsi. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Water in Los Angeles: a portrait of an urban ecosystem -- 1. City of a thousand rivers: the emergence of an urban ecosystem, 1884-1914 -- 2. A centralized authority and a comprehensive plan: response to the floods, 1914-1917 -- 3. A weir to do man's bidding: the great San Gabriel Dam fiasco, 1917-1929 -- 4. A more effective scouring agent: the New Year's Eve debris flood and the collapse of local flood control, 1930-1934 -- 5. The sun is shining over southern California: the politics of federal flood control in Los Angeles, 1935-1969 -- 6. Necessary but not sufficient: storms, environmentalism, and new visions for flood control, 1969-2001 -- The historical structure of disorder: urban ecology in Los Angeles and beyond. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a Despite having 114 debris dams, 5 flood control basins & nearly 500 miles of paved river channels, Los Angeles still struggles to cope with the threat of flash flooding. Orsi advances a new paradigm - the urban ecosystem - for understanding the city's complex & unpredictable waterways. | |
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Flood control |x Government policy. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00927456 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Flood control. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00927443 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Sociology |x Urban. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING |x Civil |x Flood Control. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Écologie urbaine |z Californie |z Los Angeles. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Inondations |x Maîtrise |x Politique gouvernementale |z Californie |z Los Angeles. | |
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