Mark Ruwedel’s Los Angeles, Landscapes of Four Ecologies includes photographs and handdrawn maps from the photographer’s 10 year project capturing the LA Basin’s distinct natural environments. Ruwedel’s photographs find evidence of fires, floods, landslides, and coastal erosion, all entangled within the city’s urban infrastructure. Writing on Ruwedel’s images of the Los Angeles River, the first of Ruwedel’s Four Ecologies, Chris Balaschak states that one may view them as a “testament to the ecologies emerging from the age of anthropogenic environmental ruin.” Landscapes of Four Ecologies takes its name from Reyner Banham’s 1971 publication, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, yet surveys those interstitial spaces Banham downplayed: the river, the coast, the hills and canyons, and that which is“haunted by the desert” (in Joan Didion’s words.)