Building New York's sewers: developing mechanisms of urban management

Offering a unique perspective on the conditions, constraints, and concerns of city government during the first half of the nineteenth century, Goldman investigates the links between decision making and the contemporary notions on disease, the environment, and city responsibility

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1. Verfasser: Goldman, Joanne Abel (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: West Lafayette, Ind. Purdue Univ. Press 1997
Schriftenreihe:History of technolgy series
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Zusammenfassung:Offering a unique perspective on the conditions, constraints, and concerns of city government during the first half of the nineteenth century, Goldman investigates the links between decision making and the contemporary notions on disease, the environment, and city responsibility
As new theories on the transmission of disease heightened concerns over public health and urban sanitation, physicians and professional engineers pressured the city to provide comprehensive sewage facilities. The locally oriented Common Council resisted the effort because it would entail the creation of administrative bodies that would have the authority to make city-wide decisions
In the end, it was only after the state provided sufficient authority, resources, and expert personnel that the city-wide project could be fully realized
Beschreibung:XVII, 228 S. Ill.
ISBN:1557530955

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