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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 unequa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Vitz, Matthew, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
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.