City of Philadelphia Water Works System
Author : Martin J. Mc Laughlin
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Water quality
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Author : Martin J. Mc Laughlin
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Water quality
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Author : Philadelphia (Pa.). Water Department
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Page : 7 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
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Author : Philadelphia (Pa.). Water Department
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 1837
Category : Water-supply
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Author : Philadelphia (Pa.). Commission on Water-Supply
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Water-supply
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Author : Philadelphia (Pa.). Water Department
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Municipal water supply
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Author : Philadelphia (Pa.). Bureau of Surveys
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
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Author : Philadelphia. Department of Public Works. Bureau of Water
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 1915
Category :
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Author : Philadelphia (Pa.). Water Department
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 198?
Category :
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Author : Utility & Municipal Services, Inc
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
ISBN :
Author : Carl Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 022602251X
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 themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.