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Garbage in the Cities
Martin Melosi
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a t... Savoir plus
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Refining Nature
Jonathan Wlasiuk
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture 90 percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during th... Savoir plus
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City on Fire
Anna Rose Alexander
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk ... Savoir plus
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Epidemics, Empire, and Environments
Michael Zeheter
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- Throughout the nineteenth century, cholera was a global scourge against human populations. Practitioners had little success in mitigating the symptoms... Savoir plus
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A Negotiated Landscape
Jasper Rubin
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco's iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millenn... Savoir plus
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London
John Broich
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons d... Savoir plus
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Rivers in History
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- Throughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience. They have demarcated mythological worlds, framed th... Savoir plus
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City of Lake and Prairie
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet--City of Lake and Prairie--with this compelling, inn... Savoir plus
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River City and Valley Life
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- Often referred to as "the Big Tomato," Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. I... Savoir plus
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Urban Infrastructure
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- Urban Infrastructures creates space for an encounter between historians, humanists, and social scientists who seek new methodological approaches to th... Savoir plus
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The Age of Smoke
Frank Uekötter
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- In 1880, coal was the primary energy source for everything from home heating to industry. Regions where coal was readily available, such as the Ruhr V... Savoir plus
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Metropolitan Natures
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- One of the oldest metropolitan areas in North America, Montreal has evolved from a remote fur-trading post in New France into an international center ... Savoir plus
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A Mighty Capital Under Threat
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the "new Rome," first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-... Savoir plus
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Effluent America
Martin Melosi
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews an... Savoir plus
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Weeds
Zachary Falck
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- As long as humans have existed, theyÆve worked and competed with plants to shape their surroundings. As cities developed and expanded, their diverse s... Savoir plus
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The Lung Block
Adrienne Denoyelles
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- Public health, housing, poverty, and immigration dominated social and political discourse in early twentieth-century New York, much as they do today. ... Savoir plus
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The Sanitary City
Martin Melosi
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans take for granted the technologies that provide them w... Savoir plus
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Devastation and Renewal
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- Every city has an environmental story, perhaps none so dramatic as Pittsburgh's. Founded in a river valley blessed with enormous resources-three stron... Savoir plus
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The City Natural
Shen Hou
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- The weekly magazine Garden and Forest existed for only nine years (1888-1897). Yet, in that brief span, it brought to light many of the issues that wo... Savoir plus
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Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of environmental decline and cultural neglect, waterfront... Savoir plus
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Land of Sunshine
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the great "what-not-to-do" of twentieth-century city building. But... Savoir plus
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Urban Rivers
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected ur... Savoir plus
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Precious Commodity
Martin Melosi
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- As an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individual and corporate abuse. It has also become an object ... Savoir plus
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Weeds
Zachary Falck
- Livre relié | History of the Urban Environment
- A comprehensive history of "happenstance plants" in American urban environments. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the presen... Savoir plus
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