Politics of urban runoff
Subtitle: nature, technology, and the sustainable city
By: Andrew Karvonen
Series: Urban and industrial environments; Urban and industrial environments
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780262016339; 9780262516341
Subjects: Water quality management; Political aspects; Urban runoff; Water quality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dilemma of water in the city; title: Urban runoff and the city of relations; title: Saving the springs : urban expansion and water quality in Austin; title: After the flood : retrofitting Austin's urban core to accommodate growth; title: Metronatural : inventing and taming nature in Seattle; title: Reasserting the place of nature in Seattle's urban creeks; title: Politics of urban runoff : building relations through active citizenship; title: Towards the relational city : imaginaries, expertise, experiments.