A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City

Author/Contributor(s):	Vitz, Matthew
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	04/27/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Matthew Vitz outlines the environmental history and politics of Mexico City as it transformed its original forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity, showing how the scientific and political disputes over water policy, housing, forestry, and sanitary engineering led to the city's unequal urbanization and environmental decline.