Ebook: Land of sunshine an environmental history of metropolitan Los Angeles
Author: Deverell William Francis, Hise Greg
- Tags: Los Angeles, Pollution, Écologie humaine--Californie--Los Angeles Agglomération de--Histoire, Écologie humaine--États-Unis--Los Angeles (Calif., agglomération), Écologie urbaine--Californie--Los Angeles Agglomération de--Histoire, Environmental degradation--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area--History, Environnement--Dégradation--Californie--Los Angeles Agglomération de--Histoire, Human ecology--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area--History, Landscape changes--California--Los Angeles Metr
- Series: History of the urban environment
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
- City: Los Angeles;Agglomération de (Calif.);Los Angeles (Calif.);Los Angeles (Calif;agglomération);Los Ang
- Edition: Paperback edition
- Language: English
- epub
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.