Building New York's Sewers: Developing Mechanisms of Urban Management
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This wide-ranging study offers a unique perspective to examine the conditions, constraints, and concerns of city government during the first half of the nineteenth century. Decisions concerning wastewater disposal in New York City reflect nineteenth-century notions of disease, the environment, and city responsibility. The decision to construct a comprehensive sewer system was a complex one that pitted individual liberty against the common good and political considerations against those of professional physicians and engineers. This history of policy formation is, then, a story of changing values and ideas that must be understood within the context of the social, economic, political, and intellectual milieu of the middle of the nineteenth century. -- Provided by publisher
Keywords
Sewage disposal -- New York (State) -- New York -- Government policy -- History -- 19th century; Sewage disposal -- Political aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century; Sewage disposal -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century; New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government;
Document Type
Book
ISBN
9781557530950
Publication Date
1997
Publisher
Purdue University Press
City
West Lafayette, IN
Department
Department of History
Object Description
xvii, 228 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Goldman, Joanne A., "Building New York's Sewers: Developing Mechanisms of Urban Management" (1997). Faculty Book Gallery. 138.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/138
