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Special thanks to John Arroyo and Jenny Price for compiling this list of resources. |
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Hollywood/Film |
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| Documentaries |
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| Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature. 1997. Four part documentary based on the book of the same name by Marc Reisner. |
| http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDD2CEE98D9DB860 |
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| Future Cities: Los Angeles River. CNN. 2010. (6:04 mins) |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMzRa0dxbxA |
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| The River Under the City of Angels. Fred Kaplan. 2010. (27:14 min) |
| http://www.fredkaplan.net/LARiver.html |
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| The Los Angeles River. Sarah Lorenzen. 2011. (24:45). |
| http://www.plasmatic-concepts.com/?p=257 |
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| The Pulse of Los Angeles: Celebrating a Watershed Initiative. |
| http://youtu.be/cH5Y8XvIcVc |
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| Rock the Boat. George Wolfe & LA River Expeditions. 2012. Trailer. |
| http://youtu.be/MqJKQnMhT28 |
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| LA River Ramble with the Urban Rangers at MOCA. 2012. (08:16). |
| http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/landofsunshine/production-notes/la-river-ramble.html |
| http://vimeo.com/27874006 |
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| Riverly. John Palacio. 2011. (7:49). |
| http://vimeo.com/30817545 |
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| Footage |
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| 1938 - 39 |
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Aerial shot of Hollywood, probably Paramount Studios, and Los Angeles/Long Beach floods of 1938-39 |
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| Hollywood/Film |
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| River Madness. Dana Plays. 2002. (2:00). |
| http://www.fandor.com/films/river_madness |
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| LA Times. Richard Verrier. 2011. (2:10). |
| http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/09/hollywood-a-river-runs-through-it.html?track=icymi |
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| The Blue Hour. Eric Nazarian. 2007. Trailer. |
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| Music Videos |
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| "Melissa." Artichoke. From the album Bees. 2011. |
| http://youtu.be/T8pY_QwSkOA |
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| No Age plays in Atwater. 2007. |
| http://youtu.be/a9EbN6B5zLg |
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| http://youtu.be/87hk12Fcpqo |
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| http://youtu.be/jYI4w1sv6r8 |
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| Media Projects |
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| The Fifth Ecology. An Urban Planning Proposal. 2009. |
| http://issuu.com/resources_08/docs/the_fifth_ecology |
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| KCET Departures: Story Share (December 4, 2010) |
| http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/community/events/storyshare-dec4th-2010.html |
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Interview with Leo Limon |
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Part 1: http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/lariver/los-feliz/leo-limon-1.html |
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Part 2: http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/highland-park/leo-limon-2.html |
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Leo Limon Website: http://leolimon.com/ |
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| Radio Sonideros |
| http://www.radiosonideros.org/ |
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| Lewis MacAdams. "A Poem from the LA River Book." |
| http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/by-lewis-mcadams.html |
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| Inyo County Water Department. "Chronology of Key Events." January 2008. |
| http://www.inyowater.org/Water_Resources/Chronology_1900_2008.pdf |
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| Jenny Price. "Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A." Believermag. 2006. |
| Part One: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200604/?read=article_price |
| Part Two: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200605/?read=article_price |
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Jenny Price’s LA Weekly field guide and cover article (2002, divided by the main areas of the River: Valley, Glendale Narrows, Downtown, South): |
In the Beginning
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The Valley
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The Glendale Narrows
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Downtown
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The South
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Like Water for Concrete
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| Lisa Sigal's Riverbed Exhibit. |
| http://www.laxart.org/exhibitions/view/lisa-sigal-riverbed/#images |
| Review of Riverbed by Jenny Gill on Creative Capital: http://blog.creative-capital.org/2013/02/in-focus-lisa-sigals-riverbed-laxart/ |
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| Books |
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| C.P. Dorland."The Los Angeles River: Its History and Ownership."Historical Society of Southern California. (1890). |
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| John Arroyo. Culture in Concrete: Art and the Re-imagination of the Los Angeles River as Civic Space. MIT Master's Thesis. 2010. |
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| William Deverell. Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past. 2005. See chapter on the River. |
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| Blake Gumprecht. The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth (Creating the American Landscape. 2001. |
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| Greg Hise (editor) & William Deverell (editor). Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles. 2006. See chapters by Jared Orsi and Blake Gumprechts. |
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| Images of America. Los Angeles River. 2008. |
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| Joe Linton. Down by the Los Angeles River: Friends of the Los Angeles River Guide. 2005. |
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| Lewis MacAdams. Founder of Friends of the Los Angeles River. |
| A Poem for the Dawn of the Terror Years. 2004. |
| The Poetry Room. 1970. |
| The River Books One, Two and Three. 2005. |
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| Patt Morrison. Rio L.A.: Tales from the Los Angeles River. 2001. |
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| Jared Orsi. Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles. 2004. |
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| Luis Rodriguez. The Concrete River. 1990. |
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| UGLAR. The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River. 2008. |
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| Tours |
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| LA River Expeditions |
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| LA River Tours |
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| KCET LA River Field Guides |
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| Paddle the LA River |
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| Jenny Price Tour of the LA River conducted for the Studio for Southern California History. |
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| Blogs |
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| The City Project - LA River. |
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| Joe Linton's LA Creekfreak. |
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| KCET Departures Confluence, River Notes. |
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| River Musings (LA River Revitalization Corporation. |
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| SaberOne Graffiti Art. |
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| Other Sources |
| US Department of the Interior 5/21/2012 Press Release |
| http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/Salazar-Highlights-11-River-Projects-in-Southeast-and-Mid-Atlantic-States-under-Americas-Great-Outdoors-Rivers-Initiative.cfm |
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| Rivers Initiative, Department of the Interior |
| http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/whatwedo/upload/Rivers-Initiative-2.pdf |
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| Erica E. Phillips. "Los Angeles Reimagines Its Waterway. Wallstreet Journal. January 11, 2013. |
| http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323530404578207642711599814.html |
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| Cecile Page Vargo. "The Legend of Owens Lake Bessie." Explore Historic California. April 2007. |
| http://www.explorehistoricalif.com/april07.html |
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| Websites |
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| Arroyo Seco Foundation |
| http://www.arroyoseco.org/ |
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| Council on Watershed Health |
| http://www.watershedhealth.org/Default2.aspx |
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| LA Urban Rangers. |
| http://laurbanrangers.org/site/ |
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| City of Los Angeles Ad Hoc River Committee for the City Department Taskforce on the LA River. |
| http://lariver.org/ |
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| County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works. |
| http://ladpw.org/wmd/watershed/LA/ |
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| Alan Loomis' Delirious LA. |
| http://deliriousla.wordpress.com/2003/12/01/down-by-the-river/ |
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| Friends of the Los Angeles River. |
| http://folar.org/ |
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| LA Conservation Corps. |
| http://www.lacorps.org/clean-and-green.php |
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| Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition |
| http://la-bike.org/ |
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| LA River Revitalization Corps. |
| http://larivercorp.org/ |
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| Los Angeles Water Keepers. |
| http://www.lawaterkeeper.org/ |
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| Mountains, Recreation and Conservation Authority |
| http://www.mrca.ca.gov/ |
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| The Northeast LA River Collaborative |
| http://www.mylariver.org/images/about-nela.pdf |
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| The Northeast Los Angeles River Study Area |
| http://www.crala.org/internet-site/Projects/East_Hollywood/NELA.cfm |
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| Northeast Trees |
| http://www.northeasttrees.org/ |
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| The Owens Valley Committee |
| http://www.ovcweb.org/index.asp |
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| The River Project |
| http://www.theriverproject.org/ |
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| The Rivers and Mountains Conservancy |
| http://www.rmc.ca.gov/ |
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| Save LA River Open Space |
| http://savelariveropenspace.org/ |
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| Tree People |
| http://www.treepeople.org/ |
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| Urban Semillas |
| http://www.urbansemillas.com/urbansemillas.com/Welcome_to_Urban_Semillas.html |
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| Urban Waters Federal Partnership |
| http://urbanwaters.gov/ |
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