A City on a Lake

Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City

Matthew Vitz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-7029-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	05.05.2018
Reihe/Serie	Radical Perspectives
Zusatzinfo	30 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-7029-8 / 0822370298
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-7029-1 / 9780822370291
Zustand	Neuware