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Sinking Chicago : climate change and the remaking of a flood-prone environment
- Title
- Sinking Chicago : climate change and the remaking of a flood-prone environment / Harold L. Platt.
- Author
- Platt, Harold L.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QC903.2.U6 P53 2018 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 295 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Urban life, landscape, and policy
- Uniform Title
- Urban life, landscape, and policy.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The dry years -- Introduction : cities, sprawl, and climate change -- The triumph of metropolitanism, 1885-1910 -- The defeat of conservationism, 1910-1920 -- The rise and fall of the American dream, 1920-1945 -- The wet years -- The boom of suburban growth, 1945-1965 -- The bust of urban decline, 1965-1985 -- The rebirth of urban nature, 1985-2011 -- Conclusion : cities, adaptation, and prairie wetlands.
- ISBN
- 9781439915486
- 1439915482
- 9781439915493
- 1439915490
- LCCN
- 2017050476
- 99976602163
- 99975968228
- OCLC
- on1004262014
- 1004262014
- SCSB-8999475
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries