Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles

Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles /

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Examines how the controversial 1928 failure of the St. Francis Dam caused major geological changes that rendered Los Angeles one of America's largest cities and served as a lesson to human limitation.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilkman, Jon (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
Subjects:	Floods > California > Santa Clara River. Dam failures > California > History > 20th century. Floodplains > California. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY). TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Dams & Reservoirs. Saint Francis Dam (Calif.) Los Angeles (Calif.) > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Monday
The Chief and the City of the Angels
"There it is, take it!"
Holding back the future
A monster in the dark
No time for nightmares
The dead zone
Sympathy, anger, and amends
Arguing over the ruins
Los Angeles on trial
Rewinding time
Hasty conclusions and high dams
Paying the price and moving on
Unfinished business and historical amnesia
Charley's obsession and computer time machines
After the fall.