An urban ranger who gives tours of the river and wrote «Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in LA» in The Believer, her book, Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, poses different ideas about nature, looks in the «wrong places» for it, and
exposes idealized views.
This shift from one kind of space to another, from an
exposed, God's eye
view to the unyielding flatness of gridded limitations harkens to the decorative framing devices common to the tradition of
idealized maps.