The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present by Martin V. Melosi

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

Martin V. Melosi

400 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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, howeve...

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