Urban Panorama

Cities both modify and depend on the natural environment. Perhaps nowhere are these relationships so vivid as in southern California where the panorama below was taken. Los Angeles’ Mulholland Drive, named after its early twentieth century water engineer, divides downtown Los Angeles from the sprawling San Fernando Valley to the north. As you view the panorama list the ways in which the city and the ecosphere interact. Use the linked quotations to assist you in your interpretation.

Urban Panorama

 Credits: Photographs by Carolyn Merchant; panorama assembly and web page by Rob Weinberg.
Panoramas updated by Ravi Shivanna using PanoramaStudio 3 (July 2018)