The Los Angeles River
Subtitle: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth (Creating the North American Landscape)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780801866425
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Hydrology (freshwater); Landscape art & architecture; Physical geography; Pollution of rivers & water supplies; Urban & municipal planning; Nature; History - General History; Nature/Ecology; California; General; Landscape; Architecture / Landscape; Los Angeles; Rivers
First sentence: WALKING ALONG THE CONCRETE BANKS OF THE LOS Angeles River, straight and smooth and wide, it is hard to imagine what the river might once have been.