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 unequa...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Porfirian metropolitan environment
- Revolution and the metropolitan environment
- Water and hygiene in the city
- The city and its forests
- Desiccation, dust, and engineered waterscapes
- The political ecology of working-class settlements
- Industrialization and environmental technocracy.