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Sinking Chicago : climate change and the remaking of a flood-prone environment
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Sinking Chicago : climate change and the remaking of a flood-prone environment / Harold L. Platt.
ISBN
9781439915486
1439915482
9781439915493
1439915490
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
295 pages ; 24 cm.
Other formats
Online version: Platt, Harold L. Sinking Chicago. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2018
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 12, 2018
Series
Urban life, landscape, and policy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The dry years
Introduction : cities, sprawl, and climate change
The triumph of metropolitanism, 1885-1910
The defeat of conservationism, 1910-1920
The rise and fall of the American dream, 1920-1945
The wet years
The boom of suburban growth, 1945-1965
The bust of urban decline, 1965-1985
The rebirth of urban nature, 1985-2011
Conclusion : cities, adaptation, and prairie wetlands.
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