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A global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures beneath the world's great cities.

The sewer, in all its murkiness, filthiness, and subterranean seclusion, has been an evocative (and redolent) literary device, appearing in works by writers ranging from Charles Dickens to Graham Greene. This entertaining and erudite book provides the story behind, or beneath, these stories, offering a global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures that lie underneath the world's great cities. Historian Stephen Halliday leads readers on an expedition through the execrable evolution of waste management—the open sewers, the cesspools, the nightsoil men, the scourge of waterborne diseases, the networks of underground piping, the activated sludge, the fetid fatbergs, and the sublime super sewers.

Halliday begins with sanitation in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia, Greece, and Imperial Rome, and con

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    Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
    Publication Date: 05/11/2019
    ISBN13: 9780262043342, 978-0262043342
    ISBN10: 0262043343
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    A global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures beneath the world's great cities.

    The sewer, in all its murkiness, filthiness, and subterranean seclusion, has been an evocative (and redolent) literary device, appearing in works by writers ranging from Charles Dickens to Graham Greene. This entertaining and erudite book provides the story behind, or beneath, these stories, offering a global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures that lie underneath the world's great cities. Historian Stephen Halliday leads readers on an expedition through the execrable evolution of waste management—the open sewers, the cesspools, the nightsoil men, the scourge of waterborne diseases, the networks of underground piping, the activated sludge, the fetid fatbergs, and the sublime super sewers.

    Halliday begins with sanitation in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia, Greece, and Imperial Rome, and con

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