![]() | The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present Subjects: Municipal water supply -- United States -- History; Sanitary engineering -- United States -- History; Refuse and refuse disposal -- United States -- History; Municipal services -- United States -- History; Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans take for granted the technologies that provide them with potable water, remove their trash, and process their wastewater. These vital services, however, are the byproduct of many decades of development by engineers, sanitarians, and civic planners. Winner of: Martin V. Melosi is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of History and director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform and the Environment, and Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment. |
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