484 pages
English language
Published March 9, 1999 by Picador.
Ecology of fear
Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster
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Los Angeles has become a magnet for the American apocalyptic imagination, with many disasters - both real and those created by Hollywood movies - in recent years. This book examines the history of disaster - both real and imagined - in LA.
Subjects
- Stadtforschung
- Literatur
- Environment
- Social problems
- Social Conditions
- Katastrophe
- Überschwemmungsgefahr
- History
- Risikomanagement
- Verstädterung
- Ecology
- Stadtplanung
- Milieurampen
- Flächenbrand
- Feuerökologie
- Environmental conditions
- Erdbebengefahr
- Los Angeles
- Slum
- Social conditions
- Social Problems
- Disasters
Places
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- California
- Los Angeles
- USA
- Los Angeles (Calif., Motiv)
- Cities