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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Matthew Vitz is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
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
Details
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780822370406 |
| ISBN-10: | 0822370409 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Vitz, Matthew |
| Hersteller: | Duke University Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk |
| Maße: | 229 x 152 x 19 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Matthew Vitz |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 27.04.2018 |
| Gewicht: | 0,51 kg |
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