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The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present

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The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present - Melosi, Martin V, Professor
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Urban life in America is supported by an invisible infrastructure. This text explores water supply, wastewater and solid-waste disposal systems in US cities from the colonial era to the present day. Martin Melosi explores the changing technologies and expanding population, along with the public health and ecological theories and practices which developed during this period of American history.

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The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present 1999, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD

ISBN-13: 9780801861529

Hardcover