Boyle Heights Resilience Hub (with link to their Resilience Hub Implementation Tool Kit)
Building science resource library, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA ). Resource publishes "all of FEMA’s hazard-specific guidance that focuses on creating hazard-resistant communities."
Extreme weather and climate change, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Brief synopsis with links to assessment reports.
Severe weather 101, NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association
Water and extreme weather, United States Geological Survey (USGS)
City of Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) For emergencies phone 911
City of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) For emergencies phone 911
City of Los Angles essential community services: Phone 211 for help finding the appropriate health or human service agency.
Red Cross disaster assistance (800) 675-5799
SCI-Arc Security (213) 356-5325
Medical facilities near SCI-Arc:
Barber, Daniel A., Modern architecture and climate : design before air conditioning, Princeton University Press, NA2541 .B37 2020
Ford, Brian, et al., The architecture of natural cooling, Routledge, TH6025 .F66 2020
Gadanho, Pedro, Climax change! : how architecture must transform in the age of ecological emergency, Actar Publishers, NA2542.35 .G33 2022
Ibelings, Hans, Modern architecture : a planetary warming history, The Architecture Observer, NA2542.35 I24 2023
Keith, Vanessa, 2100 : a dystopian utopia : the city after climate change, Terreform, QC981.8.G56 K45 2017
Roesler, Sascha, City, climate, and architecture : a theory of collective practice, Birkhàˆuser, NA2541 .R64 2022
Turan, Neyran, Architecture as measure, Actar, NA2541 .T87 2019
Barber, Benjamin R., Cool cities : urban sovereignty and the fix for global warming, Yale University Press, 2017 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Booth, Colin, et al (editors), Solutions to climate change challenges in the built environment, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Carracedo, Oscar, Design resilience in Asia : thinking the unpredictable, designing with uncertainty, Actar Publishers, NA9053.E58 C37 2021
Doll, Christopher Hideo & Jose Puppim de Oliveira (editors), Urbanization and climate co-benefits : implementation of win-win interventions in cities, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Krautheim, Mareike, et al., City and wind : climate as an architectural instrument, DOM publishers, NA2542.35 .K77 2014
McDowell, Seth (editor), Water index : design strategies for drought, flooding and contamination, University of Virginia School of Architecture and Actar, NA9053.C6 W38 2016
Meyer, Christopher Michael, et al., Buoyant clarity, Princeton Architectural Press, NA9053.E58 M49 2018
Ovink, Henk & Jelte Boeijenga, Too big : Rebuild By Design ; new approaches to climate change, Nai010, HV636 2012 .N46 2016
Pfoser, Nicole, Green facades, DETAIL Business Information, NA2542.35 .P7613 2024
Ramroth, William G., Planning for disaster : how natural and man-made disasters shape the built environment, Kaplan Publishing, NA9053.E58 R35 2007
Roaf, Susan, et al., Adapting buildings and cities for climate change : a 21st century survival guide, Architectural Press, NA2541 .R63 2005
Russ, Thomas H., Site planning and design handbook, McGraw-Hill, NA2540.5 .R87 2002 (Chapters on storm water management)
Sorkin, Michael, New Orleans under reconstruction, Verso Books, NA9127.N49 N538 2014
Van Wormer, Stephen R., “A history of flood control in the Los Angeles County drainage area,” Southern California Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 1, 1991, p. 55–94 (PDF available via Jstor)
Carle, David, Introduction to air in California, University of California Press, TD883.145.C2 C37 2006 (Chapters on Santa Ana and Diablo winds, dust devils and tornados)
Carle, David, Introduction to fire in California, University of California Press, SD421.32.C2 C38 2008
Garfin, Gregg, et al. (editors), Assessment of climate change in the southwest United States : a report prepared for the national climate assessment, Island Press, 2013 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Kaufmann, Obi, The California field atlas, Heyday Books, G1526.G3 K3 2017
Mass, Cliff, The Weather of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington Press, [2021 print edition] (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Quinn, Ronald D. & Sterling C. Keeley, Introduction to California chaparral, University of California Press, QH105.C2 Q56 2006 (Chapter 3: Fire)
Aguado, Edward & James E. Burt, Understanding weather and climate, Prentice Hall, QC861.3 .A38 2010
Brody, Samuel David, et al., Rising waters : the causes and consequences of flooding in the United States, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Healey, Justin (editor), Extreme weather and natural disasters, Spinney Press, 2012 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Moffatt, H. K. & Emily Shuckburgh (editors), Environmental hazards : the fluid dynamics and geophysics of extreme events, World Scientific, 2009 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Prettel, Leanne E. (editor), Impact of weather and climate extremes, Nova Science Publishers, 2011 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Teegavarapu, Ramesh S. V., Floods in a changing climate, Cambridge University Press, 2012 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Blakely, Edward J. & Armando Carbonell (editors), Resilient coastal city regions : planning for climate change in the United States and Australia, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2012 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Brody, Samuel David, et al., Rising waters : the causes and consequences of flooding in the United States, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Freudenberg, Robert, et al., Buy-in for buyouts : the case for managed retreat from flood zones, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2016 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaption, Cambridge University Press, 2012 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Kapucu, Naim, et al. (editors), Disaster resiliency : interdisciplinary perspectives, Routledge, 2013 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
O'Brien, Geoff & Phil O'Keefe, Managing adaptation to climate risk beyond fragmented responses, Routledge, 2014 (via Proquest Ebook Central)
Ovink, Henk & Jelte Boeijenga, Too big : Rebuild By Design ; new approaches to climate change, Nai010, HV636 2012 .N46 2016
Siders, A.R. & Katherine Mach, "'Managed retreat' done right can reinvent cities so they're better for everyone - and avoid harm from flooding, heat and fires," The Conversation, June 21, 2021
