{"product_id":"hazardous-metropolis-9780520238503","title":"Hazardous Metropolis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a little-known chapter in the city's history - the failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. It offers a lesson - both of things gone wrong and a glimpse of how they might be improved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Acknowledgments  Prologue. 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 Epilogue. The Historical Structure of Disorder: Urban Ecology in Los Angeles and Beyond  Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402819838295,"sku":"9780520238503","price":56.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520238503.jpg?v=1730481601","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hazardous-metropolis-9780520238503","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}