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The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times

The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present Paperback / softback - 2008

by Martin V. Melosi

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Paperback / softback. New. Assembles a comprehensive researched and referenced history of sanitary services in urban America. This title examines the evolution of water supply, sewage systems, and solid waste disposal during three distinct eras: The Age of Miasmas (pre-1880); The Bacteriological Revolution (1880-1945); and The New Ecology (1945 onwards).
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  • Title The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present
  • Author Martin V. Melosi
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Abridged
  • Condition New
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2008-04-18
  • Abridged Yes
  • Features Abridged, Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780822959830
  • ISBN 9780822959830 / 0822959836
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.3 x 0.85 in (23.42 x 16.00 x 2.16 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Library of Congress subjects Refuse and refuse disposal - United States -, Municipal water supply - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007046149
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.610

From the publisher

Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans take for granted the technologies that provide them with potable water, remove their trash, and process their wastewater. These vital services, however, are the byproduct of many decades of development by engineers, sanitarians, and civic planners. In The Sanitary City, Martin V. Melosi assembles a comprehensive, thoroughly researched and referenced history of sanitary services in urban America. He examines the evolution of water supply, sewage systems, and solid waste disposal during three distinct eras: The Age of Miasmas (pre-1880); The Bacteriological Revolution (1880-1945); and The New Ecology (1945 to present-day). Originally published in 2000, this abridged edition includes updated text and bibliographic materials. The Sanitary City is an essential resource for those interested in environmental history, environmental engineering, science and technology, urban studies, and public health. Winner of: George Perkins Marsh Prize from the American Society for Environmental History Urban History Association Prize for the best book in North American Urban History Abel Wolman Prize from the Public Works Historical Society Sidney Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of Technology

About the author

Martin V. Melosi is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor and founding director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. Melosi received the Distinguished Research Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), and the Esther Farfel Award from the University of Houston. He has served as president of the ASEH, the National Council on Public History, the Public Works Historical Society, and the Urban History Association. Melosi has written or edited nineteen books, including the award-winning The Sanitary City, and most recently, Atomic Age America.

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