| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4 | The History Cooperative

*Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles.* Edited by William Deverell and Greg Hise. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. viii + 350 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $34.95.)
Most people think of the Los Angeles environment as an irredeemable mess. The city's predicament is the result of a little bad luck (earthquakes and a smog-trapping climate and geography) and a lot of bad decisions (freeways, sprawl, and botched flood control). As the editors of this volume put it, Los Angeles "is widely perceived as a museum of failed urbanism" (p. 2). Yet the editors are hopeful, describing the city's public agencies and private interests as striving toward a "sustainable metropolis" (p. 12).	1
Urban environmental sustainability is an interdisciplinary problem, so the editors solicited contributions not only from historians but from an anthropologist, an ecologist, economists, and geographers. The volume's methodological catholicism is impressive, especially as many environmental historians applaud the goal of interdisciplinary work vigorously but practice it only tenuously. This multidisciplinary collection demonstrates that social and environmental sciences have much to offer environmental historians willing to engage with other fields.	. . .

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