{"product_id":"sinking-chicago-climate-change-and-the-remaking-of-a-flood-prone-environment-paperback-softback-9781439915493","title":"Sinking Chicago; Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment (Paperback \/ softback) 9781439915493","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSinking Chicago\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eClimate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHarold L Platt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781439915493\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 March 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e342 pages, 7 figs., 13 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Platt has written the first study of the effects of long-term climate change on the American city of Chicago. It is an important undertaking, and the author is fit for the task.... Platt's fine study, then, is a model for how other historians might write the history of ongoing climate change—with a critical eye toward crafting policies that will help people weather the storm.\"--\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/temple.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e49e3b3e54d82f4290d30fc59\u0026amp;id=9ee4a30ced\u0026amp;e=56304c9a5b\"' target='\"_blank\"'\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSinking Chicago, \u003c\/i\u003eHarold 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\n\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52694813573400,"sku":"9781439915493","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sinking-chicago-climate-change-and-the-remaking-of-a-flood-prone-environment-paperback-softback-9781439915493","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}