City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago

by Carl Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022615159X
• ISBN13: 9780226151595
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"