City water, city life water and the infrastructure of ideas in urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago
A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings & streets, or an arrangement of political, economic & social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas, an embodiment of the beliefs, values & aspirations of the people who created it. In this book, Carl Smith exp...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39939078*spi |
| Sumario: | A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings & streets, or an arrangement of political, economic & social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas, an embodiment of the beliefs, values & aspirations of the people who created it. In this book, Carl Smith explores this infrastructure of ideas through an examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston & Chicago between the 1790s & 1860s. |
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| Descripción Física: | xii, 327 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780226022659 9781299533004 |
