City Water, City Life: Water And The Infrastructure Of Ideas In Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, And Chicago

by Carl Smith (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2014

  $25.97

  A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, the author illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization.