Replumbing the City

Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles

Sayd Randle (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39405-6 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Moving between shower drains, aqueducts, rain gardens, and even kitchen sinks, Replumbing the City traces the enormous urban waterscape of Los Angeles in a state of flux. For more than a century, the city of Los Angeles has relied on faraway water for the vast majority of its municipal supply, but climate change is making these distant sources much less dependable. To adapt, Angelenos—including city engineers, advocates at NGOs, and residents—are developing new water supplies within the space of the city. Sayd Randle’s ethnography examines the labor of replumbing LA’s sprawling water system, detailing how a desire to sustain unlimited and uninterrupted water provision for paying customers is reshaping the urban environment and its management. Tracking how such projects redistribute the work of water management, the book explores thorny questions of how the labor of climate adaptation should be mobilized and valued.

Sayd Randle is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Singapore Management University.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Part One. Reuse
1. Public Agency Work: Centralized Sewage Recycling and the Allure of Reliability
2. Disrupting Water Consumption and Control at Home
Part Two. Recharge
3. Managing Landscape: Recharge in the Northeastern San Fernando Valley
4. Infrastructural Work and Infiltrating Runoff
5. Ecosystem Duties and Environmental Justice
Epilogue

Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	19 b-w images, 6 b-w maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-520-39405-4 / 0520394054
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39405-6 / 9780520394056
Zustand	Neuware