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

by Martin V. Melosi

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801861527
• ISBN13: 9780801861529
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 578 Pages
• Weight: 3.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.4" x 10.3"