{"product_id":"sinking-chicago-harold-l-platt-9781439915486","title":"Sinking Chicago: Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment","description":"\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\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\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439915482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439915486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2018","brand":"Harold L. Platt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065587740927,"sku":"9781439915486","price":99.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_511bfe56-0d1f-4063-8c95-00e01d534507.jpg?v=1768675961","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sinking-chicago-harold-l-platt-9781439915486","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}