Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Metropolitan Nature of Los Angeles / Greg Hise and William Deverell -- Part One: Analysis of Place -- Folio One: Southern California, 1900 / William McClung -- 1. Political Ecology of Prehistoric Los Angeles / L. Mark Raab -- 2. The Los Angeles Prairie / Paula M. Schiffman -- 3. Ranchos and the Politics of Land Claims / Karen Clay and Werner Troesken -- Part Two: Land Use and Governance -- Folio Two: Lost Landscapes/Past Lives / Terry Harkness -- 4. Pollution and Public Policy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Daniel Johnson -- 5. Beaches versus Oil in Greater Los Angeles / Paul Sabin -- 6. Who Killed the Los Angeles River? / Blake Gumprecht -- 7. Flood Control Engineering in the Urban Ecosystem / Jared Orsi -- 8. Private Sector Planning for the Environment / Tom Sitton -- 9. Zoning and Environmental Inequity in the Industrial East Side / Christopher G. Boone -- 10. Los Angeles Against the Mountains / John McPhee -- Part Three: Nature and Culture -- Folio Three: Transitions in Southern California Landscape Photography, 1900-1940 / Michael Dawson -- 11. Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in LA / Jennifer Price -- 12. A Garden of Worldly Delights / Douglas C. Sackman -- 13. Changing Attitudes toward Animals among Chicanas and Latinas in Los Angeles / Unna Lassiter and Jennifer Wolch -- Epilogue: The Present as History -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index.