Land of sunshine : an environmental history of metropolitan Los Angeles

The Resource Land of sunshine : an environmental history of metropolitan Los Angeles
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Land of sunshine : an environmental history of metropolitan Los Angeles
Title remainder
an environmental history of metropolitan Los Angeles
Statement of responsibility
edited by William Deverell and Greg Hise
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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 Ang
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digitized
Cataloging source
E7B
Dewey number
333.7/09794/94
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
Language note
English
LC call number
GF504.C2
LC item number
L36 2005eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
History of the urban environment

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