Title Land of sunshine : an environmental history of metropolitan Los Angeles / edited by William Deverell and Greg Hise.

Publication Info.	Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2005]
	©2005

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
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Description	viii, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Series	History of the urban environment
	History of the urban environment.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-336) and index.
Contents	Introduction : The metropolitan nature of Los Angeles / Greg Hise and William Deverell -- Folio one : Southern California, 1900 / William McClung. Political ecology of prehistoric Los Angeles / L. Mark Raab ; The Los Angeles prairie / Paula M. Schiffman ; Ranchos and the politics of land claims / Karen Clay and Werner Troesken -- Folio two : Lost landscapes/past lives / Terry Harkness. Pollution and public policy at the turn of the twentieth century / Daniel Johnson ; Beaches versus oil in greater Los Angeles / Paul Sabin ; Who killed the Los Angeles River? / Blake Gumprecht ; Flood control engineering in the urban ecosystem / Jared Orsi ; Private sector planning for the environment / Tom Sitton ; Zoning and environmental inequity in the industrial East Side / Christopher G. Boone ; Los Angeles against the mountains / John McPhee -- Folio three : Transitions in Southern California landscape photography, 1900-1940 / Michael Dawson. Thirteen ways of seeing nature in LA / Jennifer Price ; A garden of worldly delights / Douglas C. Sackman ; Changing attitudes toward animals among Chicanas and Latinas in Los Angeles / Unna Lassiter and Jennifer Wolch -- Epilogue : The present as history / Robert Gottlieb.
Subject	Human ecology -- California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- History.
	Human ecology.
	California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
	History.
	Urban ecology (Sociology) -- California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- History.
	Urban ecology (Sociology)
	Landscape changes -- California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- History.
	Landscape changes.
	Environmental degradation -- California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- History.
	Environmental degradation.
	Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) -- History.
	Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) -- Environmental conditions.
Added Author	Deverell, William, 1962-
	Hise, Greg.
ISBN	0822942542 acid-free paper
	0822959399 paperback

Title Land of sunshine : an environmental history of metropolitan Los Angeles / edited by William Deverell and Greg Hise.

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