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

摘要: 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 trash, process wastewater. These vital services, however, are byproduct of many decades development by engineers, sanitarians, civic planners.In "The Sanitary City", Martin V. Melosi assembles a comprehensive, thoroughly researched referenced history sanitary services America. He examines evolution water supply, sewage systems, solid waste disposal during three distinct eras: The Age Miasmas (pre-1880); Bacteriological Revolution (1880-1945); New Ecology (1945 to present-day).Originally published 2000, this abridged edition includes updated text bibliographic materials. City" is an essential resource those interested environmental history, engineering, science technology, studies, public health.