By Martin V. Melosi
ISBN-10: 0822959836
ISBN-13: 9780822959830
Immersed of their on-demand, hugely consumptive, and disposable existence, such a lot city american citizens take with no consideration the applied sciences that offer them with potable water, eliminate their trash, and strategy their wastewater. those important prone, even if, are the byproduct of many a long time of improvement by means of engineers, sanitarians, and civic planners.
In The Sanitary City, Martin V. Melosi assembles a finished, completely researched and referenced historical past of sanitary companies in city the US. He examines the evolution of water provide, sewage platforms, and strong waste disposal in the course of 3 distinctive eras: The Age of Miasmas (pre-1880); The Bacteriological Revolution (1880-1945); and the recent Ecology (1945 to present-day).
Originally released in 2000, this abridged variation contains up to date textual content and bibliographic fabrics. The Sanitary City is a vital source for these attracted to environmental heritage, environmental engineering, technology and expertise, city reports, and public health.
Winner of:
George Perkins Marsh Prize from the yankee Society for Environmental historical past city historical past organization Prize for the simplest ebook in North American city History
Abel Wolman Prize from the general public Works old Society
Sidney Edelstein Prize from the Society for the heritage of Technology
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