Sinking Chicago: Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment

by Harold L Platt and Harold L. Platt

In Sinking Chicago, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439915490
• ISBN13: 9781439915493
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"