A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City Contributor(s): Vitz, Matthew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822370298 ISBN-13: 9780822370291 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $102.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
Dewey: 304.209 |
LCCN: 2017043538 |
Series: Radical Perspectives |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.40 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican - Topical - Ecology - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |