{"product_id":"sinking-chicago-climate-change-and-the-remaking-of-a-flood-prone-environment-9781439915493","title":"Sinking Chicago: Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSinking Chicago, \u003c\/i\u003e Harold Platt shows how people responded to climate change in one American city over a hundred-and-fifty-year period. During a long dry spell before 1945, city residents lost sight of the connections between land use, flood control, and water quality. Then, a combination of suburban sprawl and a wet period of extreme weather events created damaging runoff surges that sank Chicago and contaminated drinking supplies with raw sewage. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChicagoans had to learn how to remake a city built on a prairie wetland. They organized a grassroots movement to protect the six river watersheds in the semi-sacred forest preserves from being turned into open sewers, like the Chicago River. The politics of outdoor recreation clashed with the politics of water management. Platt charts a growing constituency of citizens who fought a corrupt political machine to reclaim the region's waterways and Lake Michigan as a single eco-system. Environmentalists contested policymakers' heroic, big-technology approaches with small-scale solutions for a flood-prone environment. \u003ci\u003eSinking Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e lays out a roadmap to future planning outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harold L. Platt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439915493\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarold L. Platt\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History Emeritus at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author or editor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eShock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBuilding the Urban Environment: Visions of the Organic City in the United States, Europe, and Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e (Temple ). He has twice won the book-of-the-year award from the American Public Works Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44715301077107,"sku":"9781439915493","price":49.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_fc2c791a-f92e-42fa-a731-271d4e8d6f2b.jpg?v=1775841462","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/sinking-chicago-climate-change-and-the-remaking-of-a-flood-prone-environment-9781439915493","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}