The sanitary city : environmental services in urban America from colonial times to the present /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Melosi, Martin V., 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.
Edición:Abridged edition.
Colección:History of the urban environment.
Temas:
Refuse and refuse disposal > United States > History.
Sanitary engineering > United States > History.
Municipal water supply > United States > History.
Déchets > Élimination > États-Unis > Histoire.
Eau > Approvisionnement urbain > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Municipal water supply
Refuse and refuse disposal
Sanitary engineering
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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