The Sanitary City

Author : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0822973375

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The Sanitary City by Martin V. Melosi Pdf

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

Author : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Municipal services
ISBN : UOM:39076002379845

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The Sanitary City by Martin V. Melosi Pdf

The authors examines water supply and waste disposal in U.S. cities from Colonial times to the present day.

Author : Michelle Elizabeth Allen
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Hygiene
ISBN : 9780821417706

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Cleansing the City by Michelle Elizabeth Allen Pdf

Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian Londonexplores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove toclean up an increasingly filthy city but the resistance to their efforts.Beginning in the 1830s, reform-minded citizens, under the banner of sanitaryimprovement, plunged into London's dark and dirty spaces and returned withthe material they needed to promote public health legislation and magnificentprojects of sanitary engineering. Sanitary reform, however, was not alwaysmet with unqualified enthusiasm. While some improvements, such as slumclearances, the development of sewerage, and the embankment of the Thames,may have made London a cleaner place to live, these projects also destroyedand reshaped the built environment, and in doing so, altered the meanings andexperiences of the city. From the novels of Charles Dickens and George Gissing to anonymous magazinearticles and pamphlets, resistance to reform found expression in the nostalgicappreciation of a threatened urban landscape and anxiety about domestic autonomyin an era of networked sanitary services. Cleansing the City emphasizes the disruptions and disorientation occasioned by purification--a process we are generally inclined to see as positive. By recovering these sometimes oppositional, sometimes ambivalent responses, Michelle Allen elevates a significant undercurrent of Victorian thought into the mainstream and thus provides insight into the contested nature of sanitary modernization.

Author : Claudia Agostoni
Publisher : UNAM
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0870817345

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Monuments of Progress by Claudia Agostoni Pdf

A social and cultural history of public health in Mexico during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The book offers a fresh take on the history of medicine and public health by shifting away from the history of epidemic disease and heroic accounts of medical men and toward looking at public health in a broader social framework. It shows how new public health policies were instrumental in the 'modernisation' of Mexico. Adds to a small, but fast-growing body of literature, on the history of public health in Latin America and other developing areas of the world.

Author : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822972686

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Garbage In The Cities by Martin V. Melosi Pdf

As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and overwhelmed the senses of residents. In his landmark study, Garbage in the Cities, Martin Melosi offered the first history of efforts begun in the Progressive Era to clean up this mess. Since it was first published, Garbage in the Cities has remained one of the best historical treatments of the subject. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes two new chapters that expand the discussion of developments since World War I. It also offers a discussion of the reception of the first edition, and an examination of the ways solid waste management has become more federally regulated in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Melosi traces the rise of sanitation engineering, accurately describes the scope and changing nature of the refuse problem in U.S. cities, reveals the sometimes hidden connections between industrialization and pollution, and discusses the social agendas behind many early cleanliness programs. Absolutely essential reading for historians, policy analysts, and sociologists, Garbage in the Cities offers a vibrant and insightful analysis of this fascinating topic.

Author : Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn,Henry Duncan Littlejohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
ISBN : NLS:B000042065

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Report on the Sanitary Condition of the City of Edinburgh by Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn,Henry Duncan Littlejohn Pdf

Author : United States. Sanitary Board of the City Councils
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Cholera
ISBN : BL:A0024153112

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Report of the Commission Appointed by the Sanitary Board of the City Councils, to Visit Canada, for the Investigation of the Epidemic Cholera, Prevailing in Montreal and Quebec by United States. Sanitary Board of the City Councils Pdf

Author : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822972310

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Effluent America by Martin V. Melosi Pdf

Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective.

Author : New York Sanitary Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Overpopulation
ISBN : UIUC:30112084371266

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Reports of the Sanitary Association of the City of New York, in Relation to the Public Health by New York Sanitary Association Pdf

Author : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822977766

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Precious Commodity by Martin V. Melosi Pdf

As an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individual and corporate abuse. It has also become an object of commodification, with multinational corporations vying for water supply contracts in many countries. In Precious Commodity, Martin V. Melosi examines water resources in the United States and addresses whether access to water is an inalienable right of citizens, and if government is responsible for its distribution as a public good. Melosi provides historical background on the construction, administration, and adaptability of water supply and wastewater systems in urban America. He cites budgetary constraints and the deterioration of existing water infrastructures as factors leading many municipalities to seriously consider the privatization of their water supply. Melosi also views the role of government in the management of, development of, and legal jurisdiction over America’s rivers and waterways for hydroelectric power, flood control, irrigation, and transportation access. Looking to the future, he compares the costs and benefits of public versus private water supply, examining the global movement toward privatization.

Author : Stephan Köster,Moritz Reese,Jian'e Zuo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030014889

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Urban Water Management for Future Cities by Stephan Köster,Moritz Reese,Jian'e Zuo Pdf

This book features expert contributions on key sustainability aspects of urban water management in Chinese agglomerations. Both technical and institutional pathways to sustainable urban water management are developed on the basis of a broad, interdisciplinary problem analysis.

Author : Carl Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226022512

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City Water, City Life by Carl Smith Pdf

A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.

Author : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231548359

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Fresh Kills by Martin V. Melosi Pdf

Fresh Kills—a monumental 2,200-acre site on Staten Island—was once the world’s largest landfill. From 1948 to 2001, it was the main receptacle for New York City’s refuse. After the 9/11 attacks, it reopened briefly to receive human remains and rubble from the destroyed Twin Towers, turning a notorious disposal site into a cemetery. Today, a mammoth reclamation project is transforming the landfill site, constructing an expansive park three times the size of Central Park. Martin V. Melosi provides a comprehensive chronicle of Fresh Kills that offers new insights into the growth and development of New York City and the relationship among consumption, waste, and disposal. He traces the metamorphoses of the landscape, following it from salt marsh to landfill to cemetery and looks ahead to the future park. By centering the problem of solid-waste disposal, Melosi highlights the unwanted consequences of mass consumption. He presents the Fresh Kills space as an embodiment of massive waste, linking consumption to the continuing presence of its discards. Melosi also uses the landfill as a lens for understanding Staten Island’s history and its relationship with greater New York City. The first book on the history of the iconic landfill, Fresh Kills unites environmental, political, and cultural history to offer a reflection on material culture, consumer practices, and perceptions of value and worthlessness.

Author : Andreas N. Angelakis,Joan B. Rose
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780404844

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Evolution of Sanitation and Wastewater Technologies through the Centuries by Andreas N. Angelakis,Joan B. Rose Pdf

Most of the technological developments relevant to water supply and wastewater date back to more than to five thousand years ago. These developments were driven by the necessity to make efficient use of natural resources, to make civilizations more resistant to destructive natural elements, and to improve the standards of life, both at public and private level. Rapid technological progress in the 20th century created a disregard for past sanitation and wastewater and stormwater technologies that were considered to be far behind the present ones. A great deal of unresolved problems in the developing world related to the wastewater management principles, such as the decentralization of the processes, the durability of the water projects, the cost effectiveness, and sustainability issues, such as protection from floods and droughts were intensified to an unprecedented degree. New problems have arisen such as the contamination of surface and groundwater. Naturally, intensification of unresolved problems has led to the reconsideration of successful past achievements. This retrospective view, based on archaeological, historical, and technical evidence, has shown two things: the similarity of physicochemical and biological principles with the present ones and the advanced level of wastewater engineering and management practices. Evolution of Sanitation and Wastewater Technologies through the Centuries presents and discusses the major achievements in the scientific fields of sanitation and hygienic water use systems throughout the millennia, and compares the water technological developments in several civilizations. It provides valuable insights into ancient wastewater and stormwater management technologies with their apparent characteristics of durability, adaptability to the environment, and sustainability. These technologies are the underpinning of modern achievements in sanitary engineering and wastewater management practices. It is the best proof that “the past is the key for the future”. Evolution of Sanitation and Wastewater Technologies through the Centuries is a textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses of Water Resources, Civil Engineering, Hydraulics, Ancient History, Archaeology, Environmental Management and is also a valuable resource for all researchers in the these fields. Authors: Andreas N. Angelakis, Institute of Iraklion, Iraklion, Greece and Joan B. Rose, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

Author : Stanley Greenberg
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801859458

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Invisible New York by Stanley Greenberg Pdf

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