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The Chicago River : a natural and unnatural history /
"A social and ecological account of the Chicago River, beginning with its geological foundations and extending to the present, the book tells how a sluggish waterway emptying into Lake Michigan became central to the creation of Chicago as a major transportation hub. Originally published by Lake...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale, IL :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2019]
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| Edición: | Revised edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Chicago River : |b a natural and unnatural history / |c Libby Hill. |
| 250 | |a Revised edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Carbondale, IL : |b Southern Illinois University Press, |c [2019] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2019 | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (xxiv, 301 pages) : |b illustrations, maps. | ||
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| 588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 13, 2019). | |
| 500 | |a Originally published: Lake Claremont Press, 2000. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-290) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part I. Prehistory through the eighteenth century -- Location, location, location -- Geological foundations: bedrock and ice -- The Chicago River: branches and forks -- The natural Chicago River: animal, vegetable, and mineral -- Tribal land -- Passages and treaties: on the path to a canal -- Part II. The nineteenth century -- The Illinois and Michigan Canal -- Redesigning the harbor -- Early commerce and the river -- The North Branch settlement -- The Chicago River: clean stream to open sewer -- The I&M Canal: shipping channel to open sewer -- Toward the Sanitary and Ship Canal: from 1880 to shovel day -- Building the channel that saved Chicago -- Part III. Twentieth century -- Reconnecting the city and the river -- The North Shore Channel and the North Branch -- The ascendance of federal authority -- Straightening the South Branch -- Transforming the Skokie Marsh -- The metropolitan water reclamation district, modern sewage treatment, and the tunnel and reservoir project -- Citizens and their river -- Part IV. Early years of the twenty-first century -- The MWRD and disinfection -- Invasive carp: the case of the Sanitary and Ship Canal -- Greening the watershed -- The evolution of a riverwalk -- Retrospective. | |
| 520 | |a "A social and ecological account of the Chicago River, beginning with its geological foundations and extending to the present, the book tells how a sluggish waterway emptying into Lake Michigan became central to the creation of Chicago as a major transportation hub. Originally published by Lake Claremont Press in 2000 and reprinted by SIU Press in 2016, this revised edition updates the story."--Provided by publisher. | ||
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