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- Features
- Dust Jacket, 1st Edition
- Topic
- Cities
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780226022512
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022602251X
ISBN-13
9780226022512
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6038271519
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
City Water, City Life : Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago
Publication Year
2013
Subject
Environmental / Water Supply, United States / 19th Century, American / General, Natural Resources, Sociology / Urban
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Nature, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-043193
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
A wonderfully perceptive book that provides new insights into the development and implications of water supply in Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Readers will find especially valuable Carl Smith's use of cultural, environmental, and health-related frames to construct an 'infrastructure of ideas' relating to water., A fascinating history of the ideas about nature, health, citizenship, and time that informed the construction of some of America's earliest and greatest water systems. By demonstrating that our urban aqueducts are built out of ideas as much as bricks and mortar, Carl Smith ensures that a simple glass of water will never seem so simple again., Smith has made an important contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century urban America by uncovering the cultural foundations of one of our most vital infrastructure networks., What a nuanced treatment of water! In City Water, City Life, Carl Smith breathes new life into our understanding of the impact of water supply through his study of Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago. While we know a great deal about the systems themselves and how they were developed, Smith focuses on transcendent qualities of water befitting its central role in our lives. As such, he has expanded the audience who will derive a great deal of satisfaction from this study., City Water, City Life is a gem of a book, a tightly focused meditation on the antebellum city's 'infrastructure of ideas.' By masterfully compressing myriad period sources, Carl Smith makes major contributions to our understanding of American society and culture., A crucially important new chapter in US urban history. With impeccable research, Carl Smith seamlessly synthesizes nineteenth-century issues of politics, engineering, finance, aesthetics, law, and medicine--all focused on the creation of water systems in three major cities and all coalescing around the idea of the greater good of the public at large. City Water, City Life speaks from history to this contemporary moment when the United States confronts, yet again, the debate over public versus private control of its water., What a nuanced treatment of water! In City Water, City Life, Carl Smith breathes new life into our understanding of the impact of water supply through his study of Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago. While we know a great deal about the systems themselves and how they were developed, Smith focuses on transcendent qualities of water befitting its central role in our lives. As such, he has expanded the audience who will derive a great deal of satisfaction from this study., A crucially important new chapter in US urban history. With impeccable research, Carl Smith seamlessly synthesizes nineteenth-century issues of politics, engineering, finance, aesthetics, law, and medicine-all focused on the creation of water systems in three major cities and all coalescing around the idea of the greater good of the public at large. City Water, City Life speaks from history to this contemporary moment when the United States confronts, yet again, the debate over public versus private control of its water., This collective examination of three cities allows for a broader understanding of the meanings that American city-dwellers attached to their aqueducts, pipes, pumps, and faucets, and the water that these public works delivered.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
363.6/1097309034
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: City Water, City Life 2 The River, the Aqueduct, and the Lake: Bringing Water to Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago 3 The Individual and the Collective: Water, Urban Society, and the Public Good 4 Nature and Art: Water and the Reconciliation of the Natural and the Urban 5 The Urban Body and the Body of the City: The Sanitary Movement, the Temperance Crusade, and the Water Cure 6 The Flow of Time 7 Epilogue Notes Index
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
TD223.S64 2013
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