Visions of the Southland A Year in Los Angeles County

Wade Graham is a writer, historian, and landscape designer in Los Angeles. His books include Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World; Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii; and American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards; What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are. He has published in popular outlets including The New Yorker, Harper's, and the Los Angeles Times, and he writes two Substacks, The Extended Field and Learning from Los Angeles. William Deverell is the codirector of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, and professor of history, spatial sciences, and environmental studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past and the coeditor of Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s, Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, A Companion to California History, and A Companion to Los Angeles.