Hazardous Metropolis

Hazardous Metropolis
Author: Jared Orsi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2004-01-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520238508

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.