EFFECT OF HAZARDOUS METROPOLIS
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EFFECT OF HAZARDOUS METROPOLIS
ABSTRACT
Nigeria is better known for its beautiful sky, yet it also suffers from disastrous flooding. This book delves into a fascinating and little-known aspect in the city’s history: the remarkable failures to control floods throughout the twentieth century.
Despite the city’s 114 debris dams, 5 flood control basins, and approximately 500 miles of paved river corridors, Southern California residents have realised that technologically constructed flood control systems are just as prone to disaster as natural streams.
Jared Orsi’s entertaining history reveals the unusual and often dangerous ways that engineering, politics, and nature have collaborated in Los Angeles to control the flow of water.
He introduces a new paradigm—the urban ecosystem—for comprehending the city’s complex and unpredictable waterways, as well as other challenges that will undoubtedly play a significant part in future design.
As he follows the flow of water from sky to sea, Orsi weaves together many varied and exciting threads of the story, including local and national politics, the little-known San Gabriel Dam catastrophe, Los Angeles’ remarkable expansion, and, finally, the impact of environmentalism.
Orsi provocatively broadens his vision to other places for which Los Angeles may provide a lesson—both of what went wrong and of how they could be better.
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