Garbage in the cities
Subtitle: refuse, reform, and the environment
By: Martin V. Melosi.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: History of the urban environment
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: Out of sight, out of mind : The refuse problem in the late Nineteenth Century; title: The "apostle of cleanliness" and the origins of refuse management; title: Refuse as an engineering problem : sanitary engineers and municipal reform; title: Refuse as an aesthetic problem : voluntary citizens' organizations and sanitation; title: Street-cleaning practices in the early Twentieth Century; title: Collection and disposal practices in the early Twentieth Century; title: Solid waste as pollution in Twentieth-Century America; title: The garbage crisis in the late Twentieth Century.