Sinking Chicago Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood Prone Environment 1st Edition by Harold Platt 1439915482 9781439915486

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ISBN-10 :  1439915482 

ISBN-13 :  9781439915486

Author:  Harold L Platt 

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.

Sinking Chicago Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood Prone Environment 1st Table of contents:

Part I. The Dry Years
Introduction: Cities, Sprawl, and Climate Change
1. The Triumph of Metropolitanism
2. The Defeat of Conservationism
3. The Rise and Fall of the American Dream
Part II. The Wet Years
4. The Boom of Suburban Growth
5. The Bust of Urban Decline
6. The Rebirth of Urban Nature

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