Matthew Vitz is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

List of Abbreviations  vii
Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
I. The Making of a Metropolitan Environment
1. The Porfirian Metropolitan Environment  19
2. Revolution and the Metropolitan Environment  51
II. Spaces of a Metropolitan Environment
3. Water and Hygiene in the City  81
4. The City and Its Forests  109
5. Desiccation, Dust, and Engineered Waterscapes  136
6. The Political Ecology of Working-Class Settlements  164
7. Industrialization and Environmental Technocracy  193
Conclusion  218
Notes  235
Bibliography  291
Index  321