FROM THE SANITARY CITY TO THE CIRCULAR CITY? Technopolitics of Wastewater Restructuring in Los Angeles, California

Abstract

The research for this article was funded by the German Hans-Boeckler-Foundation (grant #394952) and by Utrecht University. The empirical fieldwork was co-financed by Utrecht University's Ronald van Kempen Urban Geography Fund and was conducted during several research stays of both authors. We thank all interviewees for their time, dedication and candor. We are grateful to Stephanie Pincetl, who hosted Valentin Meilinger at the California Center for Sustainable Communities at the University of California. In addition, we thank her and Jonathan Rutherford as well as three anonymous IJURR reviewers for their constructive feedback and insightful comments on earlier drafts of this article. Our thanks to Ana Lúcia Britto for kindly hosting Valentin Meilinger at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where this article was presented and discussed. Finally, we are grateful to Joy Burrough for her professional language editing of a near-final draft of this article. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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