Carl Smith

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City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and ChicagoHardcover, 17 April 2013

City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago
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Print Length
344 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
17 Apr 2013
ISBN-10
022602251X
ISBN-13
9780226022512

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Carl Smith
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
17 April 2013
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm
Genre:
19th Century
ISBN-10:
022602251X
ISBN-13:
9780226022512
Language:
English
Location:
Chicago
Pages:
344
Weight:
589.67 gm

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