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A City on a Lake : Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City /
In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality. Vitz shows how Mexico City's unequal urba...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Radical Perspectives : 20
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. THE MAKING OF A METROPOLITAN ENVIRONMENT
- One. The Porfirian Metropolitan Environment
- Two. Revolution and the Metropolitan Environment
- II. SPACES OF A METROPOLITAN ENVIRONMENT
- Three. Water and Hygiene in the City
- Four. The City and Its Forests
- Five. Desiccation, Dust, and Engineered Waterscapes
- Six. The Political Ecology of Working-Class Settlements
- Seven. Industrialization and Environmental Technocracy
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index