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.