UID:
almafu_9959241918702883
Format:
1 online resource (340 p.)
ISBN:
0-226-02265-X
Content:
A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential-and central-part of how we define our civilization.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
Frontmatter --
,
CONTENTS --
,
Acknowledgments --
,
1. Introduction: City Water, City Life --
,
2. The River, the Aqueduct, and the Lake: Bringing Water to Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago --
,
3. The Individual and the Collective: Water, Urban Society, and the Public Good --
,
4. Nature and Art: Water and the Reconciliation of the Natural and the Urban --
,
5. The Urban Body and the Body of the City: Th e Sanitary Movement, the Temperance Crusade, and the Water Cure --
,
6. The Flow of Time: City Water as Cultural Anticipation --
,
7. Epilogue --
,
Notes --
,
Index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-02251-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-53300-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
DOI:
10.7208/9780226022659
Bookmarklink