Politics of urban runoff [electronic resource] : nature, technology, and the sustainable city / Andrew Karvonen.

By: Karvonen, Andrew, 1971-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Urban and industrial environmentsPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011Description: xiv, 288 p. : ill., mapISBN: 9780262298704 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Urban runoff | Water quality management -- Political aspects | Water quality -- Texas -- Austin | Water quality -- Washington (State) -- SeattleGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.72/84 LOC classification: TD657 | .K374 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The dilemma of water in the city -- Urban runoff and the city of relations -- Saving the springs : urban expansion and water quality in Austin -- After the flood : retrofitting Austin's urban core to accommodate growth -- Metronatural : inventing and taming nature in Seattle -- Reasserting the place of nature in Seattle's urban creeks -- Politics of urban runoff : building relations through active citizenship -- Towards the relational city : imaginaries, expertise, experiments.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The dilemma of water in the city -- Urban runoff and the city of relations -- Saving the springs : urban expansion and water quality in Austin -- After the flood : retrofitting Austin's urban core to accommodate growth -- Metronatural : inventing and taming nature in Seattle -- Reasserting the place of nature in Seattle's urban creeks -- Politics of urban runoff : building relations through active citizenship -- Towards the relational city : imaginaries, expertise, experiments.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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