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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.