num_pages: 344
description: Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective.
language: English
title: Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment
titlecomplete: Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ)
genres: History
ratings_count: 6
series: History of the Urban Environment
publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press