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Nourishing Growth and Suffocating Life
Water, Politics, and Infrastructure in Urban Oklahoma
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eBook - PDF
Nourishing Growth and Suffocating Life
Water, Politics, and Infrastructure in Urban Oklahoma
About this book
From the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, to declining water levels in the Colorado River, water quality problems in the United States have become increasingly common. In Nourishing Growth and Suffocating Life, Daniel Mains argues that all too often subsidizing economic growth has self-destructive consequences for drinking water and stormwater infrastructure. Mains examines the case of Norman, Oklahoma, a liberal college town in one of the reddest states in the country, that is in many ways a microcosm of the nation.
Mains begins with Lake Thunderbird, a reservoir that displaced members of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe and allowed Norman’s population to nearly triple in sixty years. Norman’s growth damaged the quality of water in Lake Thunderbird, causing the city to invest millions of dollars to improve its tap water. Each chapter examines examples of the intersection between self-destructive growth, water, and politics. Mains takes readers on a journey into urban creeks that erode backyards, Facebook battles over stormwater infrastructure, and city council policy debates that veer from water to policing. Taking into consideration how conceptions of community and belonging shape the distribution of resources, Nourishing Growth and Suffocating Life explores how cities can achieve water security and sustainable growth in an era of increasing distrust in government and scientific expertise.
Mains begins with Lake Thunderbird, a reservoir that displaced members of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe and allowed Norman’s population to nearly triple in sixty years. Norman’s growth damaged the quality of water in Lake Thunderbird, causing the city to invest millions of dollars to improve its tap water. Each chapter examines examples of the intersection between self-destructive growth, water, and politics. Mains takes readers on a journey into urban creeks that erode backyards, Facebook battles over stormwater infrastructure, and city council policy debates that veer from water to policing. Taking into consideration how conceptions of community and belonging shape the distribution of resources, Nourishing Growth and Suffocating Life explores how cities can achieve water security and sustainable growth in an era of increasing distrust in government and scientific expertise.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Eutrophication, Creeks, Conspiracy, and Citizenship
- Historical Interlude: Boomers, Sooners, and a Conspiracy of Developers
- 1. Tasting Growth and White Supremacy in a “Progressive, Wholesome City”
- 2. Expanding Citizenship and Debating Growth in the 1970s
- 3. Urban Creeks and the Tragedy of a Commons without Community
- 4. Facebook, Stormwater, and Digital Eutrophication
- 5. Planning for Future Water in a Time of Mistrust
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index