City water, city life : water and the infrastructure of ideas in urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago /
Smith, Carl S.,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : city water, city life -- The river, the aqueduct, and the lake : bringing water to Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago -- The individual and the collective : water, urban society, and the public good -- Nature and art : water and the reconciliation of the natural and the urban -- The urban body and the body of the city : the sanitary movement, the temperance crusade, and the water cure -- The flow of time -- Epilogue.
Municipal water supply
Waterworks
Urbanization