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Garbage In The Cities: Refuse Reform and the Environment (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ) by Martin V. Melosi is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Garbage In The Cities: Refuse Reform and the Environment (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ) about?
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 thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and overwhelmed the senses of residents. In his landmark study, __Garbage in the Cities__, Martin Melosi offered the first history of efforts begun in the Progressive Era to clean up this mess. Since it was first published, __Garbage in the Cities__ has remained one of the best historical treatments of the subject. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes two new chapters that expand the discussion of developments since World War I. It also offers a discussion of the reception of the first edition, and an examination of the ways solid waste management has become more federally regulated in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Melosi traces the rise of sanitation engineering, accurately describes the scope and changing nature of the refuse problem in U.S. cities, reveals the sometimes hidden connections between industrialization and pollution, and discusses the social agendas behind many early cleanliness programs. Absolutely essential reading for historia
Who reads Garbage In The Cities: Refuse Reform and the Environment (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ)?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Martin V. Melosi
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822958574
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Management, Science