London
Subtitle: water and the making of the modern city
By: John Broich
Series: History of the urban environment
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780822944270
Subjects: Water-supply; Water resources development; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Water and the making of the modern British city; title: Great expectations: the first efforts to reform London with water; title: "Communism in water": a strategy for harnessing water to reshape late Victorian London society; title: From engineering modernization to engineering collectivization; title: An alternative vision of the modern city, an alternative government of water.