The Sanitary City

Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present

von Martin Melosi

400 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

>>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

• ISBN: 9780822959830
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.04.2008
• Größe: 234 x 160 mm
• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press