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Building Sponge City: Redesigning LA For Long-Term Drought

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Amy Standen

January 22, 2015

The Los Angeles River in 2013. Engineers turned it into a narrow concrete channel in the 1940s, after a flood destroyed homes and left 100 people dead in 1938. (Flickr)

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