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City Water, City Life
Carl Smith
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Description for City Water, City Life
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 344 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSG; KNBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226151595
SKU
V9780226151595
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About Carl Smith
Carl Smith is the Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies and professor of history at Northwestern University. His books include three prize-winning volumes: Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920; Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman; and The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham ... Read more
Reviews for City Water, City Life
"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, Smith ensures that a simple glass of water will never seem so simple again." (Michael Rawson, author of ... Read more