| Edition |
Abridged edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
History of the Urban Environment
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History of the urban environment.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-342) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. The age of miasmas : from colonial times to 1880 -- 1. Sanitation practices in pre-Chadwickian America -- 2. Bringing the serpent's tail into the serpent's mouth : Edwin Chadwick and the sanitary idea" in England -- 3. The "sanitary idea" crosses the Atlantic -- 4. Pure and plentiful : from protosystems to modern waterworks, 1830-1880 -- 5. Subterranean networks : wastewater systems as works in progress, 1830-1880 -- pt. II . The bacteriological revolution, 1880-1945 -- 6. On the cusp of the new public health : bacteriology, environmental sanitation, and the quest for permanence, 1880-1920 -- 7. Water supply as a municipal enterprise, 1880-1920 -- 8. Battles at both ends of the pipe : sewerage systems and the new health paradigm, 1880-1920 -- 9. The third pillar of sanitary services : the rise of public refuse management, 1880-1920 -- 10. The Great Depression, World War II, and public works, 1920-1945 -- 11. Water supply as a national issue : the federal government, expansion of service, and the threat of pollution, 1920-1945 -- 12. Sewerage, treatment, and the "broadening viewpoint," 1920-1945 -- 13. The "orphan child of sanitary engineering" : refuse collection and disposal, 1920-1945 -- pt. III . The new ecology, 1945-2000s -- 14. The challenge of suburban sprawl and the "urban crisis" in the age of ecology, 1945-1970 -- 15. A time of unease : the "water crisis" in an effluent society, 1945-1970 -- 16. Beyond their limits : decaying sewers, overflows, and foaming plants, 1945-1970 -- 17. Solid waste as "third pollution," 1945-1970 -- 18. From Earth Day to infrastructure crisis : forces shaping the new sanitary city -- 19. Beyond broken pipes and tired treatment plants : water supply, wastewater, and pollution since 1970 -- 20. Out of state, out of mind : the garbage crisis in America -- Epilogue. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Refuse and refuse disposal -- United States -- History.
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Refuse and refuse disposal. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Sanitary engineering -- United States -- History.
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Sanitary engineering. |
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Municipal water supply -- United States -- History.
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Municipal water supply. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Melosi, Martin V., 1947- Sanitary city. Abridged ed. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2008 9780822959830 (DLC) 2007046149 (OCoLC)180989650 |
| ISBN |
9780822973379 (electronic book) |
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0822973375 (electronic book) |
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9780822959830 |
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0822959836 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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