Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 355 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9780691237848
,
0691237840
Inhalt:
"Give us cold water" -- Manahata goes Dutch -- English well-being -- Tea water and the works that weren't -- New city, old trouble -- Aaron's water -- Fools of Gotham -- Catching the Croton bug -- The work begins -- Taking the high road? -- Filling the "Big teapot" -- New York's water from then to now.
Inhalt:
This text examines New York City's struggle for that vital and basic element - clean water. Drawing on primary sources, personal narratives, and anecdotes, it shows how the project developed up to 1842 when the Croton Aqueduct was secured
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0691011397
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Koeppel, Gerard T., 1957- Water for Gotham Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, ©2000
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
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