Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles

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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 and ancient ecologies to the very recent past, Land of Sunshine is a fascinating exploration of the environmental history of greater Los Angeles. Rather than rehearsing a litany of errors or insults against...

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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 and ancient ecologies to the very recent past, Land of Sunshine is a fascinating exploration of the environmental history of greater Los Angeles. Rather than rehearsing a litany of errors or insults against nature, rather than decrying the lost opportunities of "roads not taken," these essays, by nineteen leading geologists, ecologists, and historians, instead consider the changing dynamics both of the city and of nature.
In the nineteenth century, for example, "density" was considered an evil, and reformers struggled mightily to move the working poor out to areas where better sanitation and flowers and parks "made life seem worth the living."

We now call that vision "sprawl," and we struggle just as much to bring middle-class people back into the core of American cities. There's nothing natural, or inevitable, about such turns of events. It's only by paying very close attention to the ways metropolitan nature has been constructed and construed that meaningful lessons can be drawn. History matters.

So here are the plants and animals of the Los Angeles basin, its rivers and watersheds. Here are the landscapes of fact and fantasy, the historical actors, events, and circumstances that have proved transformative over and over again. The result is a nuanced and rich portrait of Los Angeles that will serve planners, communities, and environmentalists as they look to the past for clues, if not blueprints, for enhancing the quality and viability of cities.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780822959397
  • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Publication date: 7/28/2006
  • Pages: 360
  • Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ Series
  • Product dimensions: 6.13 (w) x 9.25 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

William Deverell, professor of history at the University of Southern California and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, is the author of Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past and editor of the Blackwell Companion to the American West. With Greg Hise, he coauthored Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region.

Greg Hise is an urban historian in the School of Policy, Planning, Development at the University of Southern California where he holds joint appointments in the departments of history and geography. He is the author of Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (awarded the Spiro Kostof Prize and Pflueger Award) and a coeditor of Rethinking Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Introduction : the metropolitan nature of Los Angeles 1
Pt. 1 Analysis of place 13
Folio 1 Southern California, 1900 16
1 Political ecology of prehistoric Los Angeles 23
2 The Los Angeles prairie 38
3 Ranchos and the politics of land claims 52
Pt. 2 Land use and governance 67
Folio 2 Lost landscapes/past lives 71
4 Pollution and public policy at the turn of the twentieth century 78
5 Beaches versus oil in greater Los Angeles 95
6 Who killed the Los Angeles river? 115
7 Flood control engineering in the urban ecosystem 135
8 Private sector planning for the environment 152
9 Zoning and environmental inequity in the industrial east side 167
10 Los Angeles against the mountains 179
Pt. 3 Nature and culture 201
Folio 3 Transitions in Southern California landscape photography, 1900-1940 204
11 Thirteen ways of seeing nature in LA 220
12 A garden of worldly delights 245
13 Changing attitudes toward animals among Chicanas and Latinas in Los Angeles 267
Epilogue : the present as history 288
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