
Fig. 4.6 Notice
the number of swimming pools on the left in the residential neighborhood of West
Hills.
The street bisecting the neighborhood from the massive parking lot is
Fallbrook Ave. In addition to showing the density of pools and imported
vegetation in the neighborhood, this photograph also shows the other extreme of
human interference on the natural landscape of the Valley… a parking lot.
Massive parking lots such as the one shown in this photograph have enormous heat
capacities.