Sinking Chicago: Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment
(Part of the Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1439915490
ISBN13:9781439915493
Release Date:March 2018
Publisher:Temple University Press
Length:342 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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