Once the third largest lake in California, and among the world's greatest air pollution offenders, the deadened Owens Lakewas for decades merely a catastrophic footnote to the most notorious water grab in modern history.
Alexander Robinson is a landscape architect, author, and assistant professor at the University of Southern California. He is theco-author of the book Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture and a winner of theprestigious Rome Prize.
