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Sinking Chicago
- Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment
Engelsk Hardback
Sinking Chicago
- Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment
Engelsk Hardback

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In Sinking Chicago, Harold Platt shows how people responded to climate change in one American city over a hundred-and-fifty-year period. During a long dry spell before 1945, city residents lost sight of the connections between land use, flood control, and water quality. Then, a combination of suburban sprawl and a wet period of extreme weather events created damaging runoff surges that sank Chicago and contaminated drinking supplies with raw sewage. Chicagoans had to learn how to remake a city built on a prairie wetland. They organized a grassroots movement to protect the six river watersheds in the semi-sacred forest preserves from being turned into open sewers, like the Chicago River. The politics of outdoor recreation clashed with the politics of water management. Platt charts a growing constituency of citizens who fought a corrupt political machine to reclaim the region’s waterways and Lake Michigan as a single eco-system. Environmentalists contested policymakers’ heroic, big-technology approaches with small-scale solutions for a flood-prone environment. Sinking Chicago lays out a roadmap to future planning outcomes.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
342
ISBN-13:
9781439915486
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1439915482
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
9 mar 2018
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Temple University Press,U.S.
Oplagsdato:
9 mar 2018
Forfatter(e):
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