City Water, City Life (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2014
First published:	April 2014
Authors:	Carl Smith
Dimensions:	228 x 157 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-15159-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Energy industries & utilities > Water industries Books > History > General
LSN:	0-226-15159-X
Barcode:	9780226151595

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