City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago - Carl Smith - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226022512 - April 17, 2013
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City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago

Carl Smith

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 and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. This book explores this infrastructure of ideas through an examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and 1860s.


360 pages, 32 halftones

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released April 17, 2013
ISBN13 9780226022512
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 344
Dimensions 16 × 23 × 3 mm   ·   595 g

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