Smog in LA, c. 1949
Essay on "the smog problem" in Los Angeles and Southern California, around 1949.
Smog: Visualizations, Effects c. 1949
DRAFTPerhaps the first attempts to visualize smog and/through its effects ocurred in Los Angeles in the first few post-world War II years. This is done by a small group of actors, working almost entirely under the auspices of two institutions: 1) the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), just starting to establish itself as the largest and most influential "think tank" of the Cold War University-Military Industrial Complex; its air pollution work was sponsored by the Western Oil and Gas Association, and 2) the Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control Board.MORE TO COME
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1/26/20 revisiting the reinvention of the fieldnote again, as I sit and read stuff on the internet i.e. do fieldwork, in this case a book on GooglePlay, Smogtown, which is pretty pop pop history.
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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05062016/oil-industry-clean-air-fight-smog-los-angeles-dress-rehearsal-climate-change-denial-exxonLos Angeles' smog began to rise to alarming levels in the early 1940s and swiftly became an economic and public health threat. On December 11, 1946, the Los Angeles Times ran a front-page article identifying a local refinery as the source.