Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles

by William Francis Deverell and Greg Hise

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822959399
• ISBN13: 9780822959397
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"