Matthew Vitz

A City on a Lake

Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City

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Produktbeschreibung

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 unequal urbanization and environmental decline stemmed from numerous scientific and social disputes over water policy, housing, forestry, and sanitary engineering. From the prerevolutionary efforts to create a hygienic city supportive of capitalist growth, through revolutionary demands for a more democratic distribution of resources, to the mid-twentieth-century emergence of a technocratic bureaucracy that served the interests of urban elites, Mexico City's environmental history helps us better understand how urban power has been exercised, reproduced, and challenged throughout Latin America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780822370406
• ISBN-10: 0822370409
• Artikelnr.: 48582210

Autorenporträt

Matthew Vitz is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations  vii
Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
I. The Making of a Metropolitan Environment
1. The Porfirian Metropolitan Environment  19
2. Revolution and the Metropolitan Environment  51
II. Spaces of a Metropolitan Environment
3. Water and Hygiene in the City  81
4. The City and Its Forests  109
5. Desiccation, Dust, and Engineered Waterscapes  136
6. The Political Ecology of Working-Class Settlements  164
7. Industrialization and Environmental Technocracy  193
Conclusion  218
Notes  235
Bibliography  291
Index  321