TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melosi,Martin V.
TI  - The sanitary city: environmental services in urban America from colonial times to the present 
T2  - History of the Urban Environment
SN  - 9780822973379
AV  - TD223 .S265 2008eb
U1  - 363.6/10973 23
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Refuse and refuse disposal
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Sanitary engineering
KW  - Municipal water supply
KW  - Déchets
KW  - Élimination
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Eau
KW  - Approvisionnement urbain
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Environmental Science
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-342) and index; 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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