Effluent America : cities, industry, energy, and the environment /

What's the difference between an anthill and a city? Protection from weather and predators, living and working quarters, transportation networks, food storage capability - all these they hold in common. And while there are obvious differences between humans and ants, both exist in the same spac...

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Kaituhi matua: Melosi, Martin V., 1947-
Hōputu: Licensed eBooks
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I whakaputaina: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press ©2001.
Rangatū:University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions.
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections.
Urunga tuihono:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.15238530
Rārangi ihirangi:
  • Introduction
  • pt. 1. Pollution in industrial America. Environmental crisis in the city : the relationship between industrialization and urban pollution
  • Pollution and the emergence of industrial America
  • Down in the dumps : Is there a garbage crisis in America?
  • Hazardous waste and environmental liability: a historical perspective
  • pt. 2. Urban growth and community services. The place of the city in environmental history
  • Cities, technical systems, and the environment
  • Sanitary services and decision making in Houston
  • Community and the growth of Houston
  • pt. 3. Urban environmental reform. Environmental reform in the industrial cities : the civic response to pollution in the progressive era
  • Sanitary engineering in American cities: changing roles from the age of miasmas to the age of ecology
  • Environmental justice, political agenda setting, and the myths of history.