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Sinking Chicago: Climate Change and the Remaking of a FloodProne Environment (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy),Used
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In Sinking Chicago, Harold Platt shows how people responded to climate change in one American city over a hundredandfiftyyear period. During a long dry spell before 1945, city residents lost sight of the connections between land use, flood control, and water quality. Then, a combination of suburban sprawl and a wet period of extreme weather events created damaging runoff surges that sank Chicago and contaminated drinking supplies with raw sewage.Chicagoans had to learn how to remake a city built on a prairie wetland. They organized a grassroots movement to protect the six river watersheds in the semisacred forest preserves from being turned into open sewers, like the Chicago River. The politics of outdoor recreation clashed with the politics of water management. Platt charts a growing constituency of citizens who fought a corrupt political machine to reclaim the regions waterways and Lake Michigan as a single ecosystem. Environmentalists contested policymakers heroic, bigtechnology approaches with smallscale solutions for a floodprone environment. Sinking Chicago lays out a roadmap to future planning outcomes.
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