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A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City

A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City

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Series: Radical Perspectives

Environmental StudiesGeneral SociologyMexican History

ISBN10: 0822370409
ISBN13: 9780822370406
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 27 2018
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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