TY - BOOK AU - Karvonen, Andrew TI - Politics of urban runoff : nature,technology and the sustainable city SN - 0262516349 U1 - 363.7284 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - MIT Press N1 - CONTENTS Preface vii Acknowledgments xiii 1 The Dilemma of Water in the City 1 2 Urban Runoff and the City of Relations 17 3 Saving the Springs: Urban Expansion and Water Quality in Austin 35 4 After the Flood: Retrofitting Austin's Urban Core to Accommodate Growth 65 5 Metronatural: Inventing and Taming Nature in Seattle 91 6 Reasserting the Place of Nature in Seattle's Urban Creeks 123 7 Politics of Urban Runoff: Building Relations through Active Citizenship 159 8 Toward the Relational City: Imaginaries, Expertise, Experiments 187 Notes 199 References 229 Index259 ER -