City water, city life water and the infrastructure of ideas in urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago

Introduction : city water, city life -- The river, the aqueduct, and the lake : bringing water to Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago -- The individual and the collective : water, urban society, and the public good -- Nature and art : water and the reconciliation of the natural and the urban -- The ur...

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1. Verfasser: Smith, Carl S. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chicago, IL u.a. University of Chicago Press 2013
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction : city water, city life -- The river, the aqueduct, and the lake : bringing water to Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago -- The individual and the collective : water, urban society, and the public good -- Nature and art : water and the reconciliation of the natural and the urban -- The urban body and the body of the city : the sanitary movement, the temperance crusade, and the water cure -- The flow of time -- Epilogue.
Introduction : city water, city life -- The river, the aqueduct, and the lake : bringing water to Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago -- The individual and the collective : water, urban society, and the public good -- Nature and art : water and the reconciliation of the natural and the urban -- The urban body and the body of the city : the sanitary movement, the temperance crusade, and the water cure -- The flow of time -- Epilogue
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XII, 327 S.
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ISBN:9780226022512
978-0-226-02251-2