Politics of Urban Runoff Nature, Technology, and the Sustainable City

Name: Politics of Urban Runoff Nature, Technology, and the Sustainable City
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ISBN: 9780262516341

ISBN-10: 0262516349

ISBN-13: 9780262516341

Edition: 2011

Authors: Andrew Karvonen, Robert Gottlieb

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When rain falls on the city, it creates urban runoff that cause flooding, erosion, and water pollution. Municipal engineers manage a complex network of technical and natural systems to treat and remove these temporary water flows from cities as quickly as possible. Urban runoff is frequently discussed in terms of technical expertise and environmental management, but it encompasses a multitude of such nontechnical issues as land use, quality of life, governance, aesthetics, and community identity, and is central to the larger debates on creating more sustainable and livable cities. In this book, Andrew Karvonen uses urban runoff as a lens to view the relationships among nature, technology,…

Book details

List price: $7.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/23/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Andrew Karvonen is a Research Fellow at the Manchester Architecture Research Centre in theUniversity of Manchester's School of Environment and Development and a Visiting Research Fellow atthe Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Texas at Austin.