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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  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2018
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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" L (1.40 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
- Cultural Region - Mexican
- Topical - Ecology
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
Review Citations: Choice 01/01/2019
 
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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.
 
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