Floodplain residential construction skyrocketed in postwar boom cities

Evidence

In Denver, the residential acreage in floodplains jumped by 250 percent in the 1960s. In Dallas, the number of single-family homes in the floodplains of the Trinity River rose by 641 percent from 1936 to 1957; in the Pico-Rivera section of Los Angeles, the increase was 867 percent. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 682

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Contradictory engineered water management signals the loss of flood equilibrium — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 424; Two-thirds of postwar Los Angeles homes were built on hillside lots — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 671; Postwar flood devastation reached record damage levels between 1950 and 1955 — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 686 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Suburban sprawl created flood damage faster than engineered protections could counter #corroborates (0.85) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 698
• Postwar housing development sharply raised environmental costs that people then politicized #expands (0.82) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 15
• Building on floodplains forced taxpayers to subsidize private developers through dams #corroborates (0.78) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 699