Building New York's Sewers: Developing Mechanisms of Urban Management: The Evolution of Mechanisms of Urban Management - Rilegato

Goldman, Joanne Abel

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ISBN 10: 1557530955 ISBN 13: 9781557530950

Casa editrice: Purdue Univ Pr, 1997

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This wide-ranging study offers a unique perspective to examine the conditions, constraints, and concerns of city government during the first half of the nineteenth century. Decisions concerning wastewater disposal in New York City reflect nineteenth-century notions of disease, the environment, and city responsibility. The decision to construct a comprehensive sewer system was a complex one that pitted individual liberty against the common. good and political considerations against those of professional physicians and engineers. This history of policy formation is, then, a story of changing values and ideas that must be understood within the context of the social, economic, political, and intellectual milieu of the middle of the nineteenth century.

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Book by Abel Goldman Joanne

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• Editore: Purdue Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1557530955
• ISBN 13: 9781557530950
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 228