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This revised edition of a seminal work in the field of urban environmental history traces the development of waste management and related technologies from the Progressive Era to the present.

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A seminal examination of a too often neglected by-product of the technical and economic revolutions of the twentieth century. - Technology and Culture; ""Tells us much about American consumption, treatment of natural resources, social organization, and public spirit."" - Journal of American History; ""An important book on a vexing, critical problem.... This is an issue on which history has much to say, and we can benefit by learning from the littered path we have trod."" - Journal of Economic History; ""Whether a sign of poverty (then) or of abundance (now), trash has been and remains a primary by-product of urban life. With this reprint edition, a new generation of scholars will have ready access to a foundational study of solid waste management in American cities, a book that set out lines of inquiry on equity and environmental justice, on women and municipal housekeeping, on urban ecology that redefined urban studies. This is a classic."" - Greg Hise, University of Southern California

Garbage In The Cities Refuse Reform and the Environment History of the Urban Environment

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      Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
      Published 11/23/2004 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780822958574
      978-0822958574
      ISBN-10 0822958570
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This revised edition of a seminal work in the field of urban environmental history traces the development of waste management and related technologies from the Progressive Era to the present.

      Trade Review
      A seminal examination of a too often neglected by-product of the technical and economic revolutions of the twentieth century. - Technology and Culture; ""Tells us much about American consumption, treatment of natural resources, social organization, and public spirit."" - Journal of American History; ""An important book on a vexing, critical problem.... This is an issue on which history has much to say, and we can benefit by learning from the littered path we have trod."" - Journal of Economic History; ""Whether a sign of poverty (then) or of abundance (now), trash has been and remains a primary by-product of urban life. With this reprint edition, a new generation of scholars will have ready access to a foundational study of solid waste management in American cities, a book that set out lines of inquiry on equity and environmental justice, on women and municipal housekeeping, on urban ecology that redefined urban studies. This is a classic."" - Greg Hise, University of Southern California

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