Los Angeles River

Name: Los Angeles River
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
SKU: 9780801866425
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Its Life, Death and Possible Rebirth

Autor: Blake Gumprecht

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: Johns Hopkins University Press

Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa v malom množstve

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Three centuries ago, the Los Angeles River meandered through marshes and forests of willow and sycam...

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Autor

Blake Gumprecht

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2001

Stránok

384

EAN

9780801866425

ISBN

0801866421

Enbook ID

04709042

Vydavateľ

Johns Hopkins University Press

Hmotnosť

703

Rozmery

178 x 254 x 24

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Three centuries ago, the Los Angeles River meandered through marshes and forests of willow and sycamore. Trout spawned in its waters and grizzly bears roamed its shores. The bountiful environment the river helped create supported one of the largest concentrations of Indians in North America. Today, the river is made almost entirely of concrete. Chain-link fence and barbed wire line its course. Shopping carts and trash litter its channel. Little water flows in the river most of the year, and nearly all that does is treated sewage and oily street runoff. On much of its course, the river looks more like a deserted freeway than a river. The river's contemporary image belies its former character and its importance to the development of Southern California. Los Angeles would not exist were it not for the river, and the river was crucial to its growth. Recognizing its past and future potential, a potent movement has developed to revitalize its course. The Los Angeles River offers the first comprehensive account of a river that helped give birth to one of the world's great cities, significantly shaped its history, and promises to play a key role in its future.

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