Author: Los Angeles County (Calif.). Board of Engineers Flood ControlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bank protection
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Reports of the Board of Engineers, Flood Control
Author: Los Angeles County (Calif.). Board of Engineers Flood ControlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bank protection
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Los Angeles County Drainage Area Review, Feasibility Study and Interim Report
Author: Los Angeles County Drainage Area (LACDA) Water Conservation and Supply and Santa Fe-Whittier Narrows Dams Feasibility Study
Author: Land of Sunshine
Author: William DeverellPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 9780822959397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the great "what-not-to-do" of twentieth-century city building. But there's much more to LA's story than this shallow stereotype. History shows that Los Angeles was intensely, ubiquitously planned. The consequences of that planning-the environmental history of urbanism--is one place to turn for the more complex lessons LA has to offer. Working forward from ancient times and ancient ecologies to the very recent past, Land of Sunshine is a fascinating exploration of the environmental history of greater Los Angeles. Rather than rehearsing a litany of errors or insults against nature, rather than decrying the lost opportunities of "roads not taken," these essays, by nineteen leading geologists, ecologists, and historians, instead consider the changing dynamics both of the city and of nature. In the nineteenth century, for example, "density" was considered an evil, and reformers struggled mightily to move the working poor out to areas where better sanitation and flowers and parks "made life seem worth the living." We now call that vision "sprawl," and we struggle just as much to bring middle-class people back into the core of American cities. There's nothing natural, or inevitable, about such turns of events. It's only by paying very close attention to the ways metropolitan nature has been constructed and construed that meaningful lessons can be drawn. History matters. So here are the plants and animals of the Los Angeles basin, its rivers and watersheds. Here are the landscapes of fact and fantasy, the historical actors, events, and circumstances that have proved transformative over and over again. The result is a nuanced and rich portrait of Los Angeles that will serve planners, communities, and environmentalists as they look to the past for clues, if not blueprints, for enhancing the quality and viability of cities.
Report
Author: Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Appropriations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
A history of the Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1898-1965
Author: Anthony F. TurhollowPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Public Works
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
Flood Control Plans and New Projects
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood ControlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
Public Works Appropriations, 1957
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
Book Description