City on a Lake - Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Vitz is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Klappentext Matthew Vitz is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Zusammenfassung Matthew Vitz outlines the environmental history and politics of Mexico City as it transformed its original forested! water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity! showing how the scientific and political disputes over water policy! housing! forestry! and sanitary engineering led to the city's unequal urbanization and environmental decline. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations  vii Acknowledgments  ix Introduction  1 I. The Making of a Metropolitan Environment 1. The Porfirian Metropolitan Environment  19 2. Revolution and the Metropolitan Environment  51 II. Spaces of a Metropolitan Environment 3. Water and Hygiene in the City  81 4. The City and Its Forests  109 5. Desiccation, Dust, and Engineered Waterscapes  136 6. The Political Ecology of Working-Class Settlements  164 7. Industrialization and Environmental Technocracy  193 Conclusion  218 Notes  235 Bibliography  291 Index  321

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Vitz
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780822370291
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-7029-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Radical Perspectives; Radical Perspectives
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous