Karvonen, Andrew

Politics of urban runoff: nature, technology, and the sustainable city / by Andrew Karvonen - London: MIT press, 2011. - xiv, 288 p.

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

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