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• Title:Sinking Chicago : climate change and the remaking of a flood-prone environment / Harold L. Platt.
  
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• Author/Creator:Platt, Harold L., author.
  
• Published/Created:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2018.
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QC903.2.U6 P53 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 09-15-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Climatic changes--Illinois--Chicago.
  Floodplains--Illinois--Chicago.
  Flood control--Illinois--Chicago.
  Water quality--Illinois--Chicago.
  Chicago (Ill.)--Environmental conditions.
  
• Description:295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Urban life, landscape, and policy.
  
• Summary:"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."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-280) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781439915486 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
  1439915482 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
  9781439915493 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
  1439915490 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Dry Years
  Introduction: Cities, Sprawl, and Climate Change
  1. Triumph of Metropolitanism, 1885
  1910
  2. Defeat of Conservationism, 1910
  1920
  3. Rise and Fall of the American Dream, 1920
  1945
  pt. II Wet Years
  4. Boom of Suburban Growth, 1945
  1965
  5. Bust of Urban Decline, 1965
  1985
  6. Rebirth of Urban Nature, 1985
  2011.