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• catalog abstract "What's the difference between an anthill and a city? Protection from weather and predators, living and working quarters, transportation networks, food storage capability - all these they hold in common. And while there are obvious differences between humans and ants, both exist in the same space and time dimension - in nature. This simple idea, imagining cities as part of the larger physical world, has driven the work of the historian Martin Melosi for twenty-five years. Melosi is one of a handful of scholars who examine urban history from an ecological perspective, using the city to help define the place of nature in human life. Cities, he maintains, are places where humans live, work, play, consume goods, and make waste - just as humans have in caves, on farms, and in villages. To imagine the city as outside of nature limits what can be known about our past, and our future. Effluent America is a collection of essays spanning this innovative scholar's career and the growing field of urban environmental history. Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Effluent America treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective. He charts the development of city services, the rationale for their implementation, and how they affected growth. He explores the environmental impacts of unprecedented methods of production, the influence of new forms of energy, and changing patterns of consumption during the Industrial Revolution and beyond. In so doing, he traces how one of the richest nations in the world became also the most wasteful, a juxtaposition of affluence and effluence. Other essays consider the important role of American cities in the history of the conservation and environmental movements. Melosi sketches the reforms and reformers, born out of such urban "quality of life" issues as pollution, sanitation, public health, and the need for greenspace. He also profiles the environmental justice movement, whose response to environmental problems is a question - Who bears the most risk? Urban environmental history is a window on the past, but it also directly informs issues of the present: public health, pollution, the role of government in delivering services, etc. Effluent America is an important volume for students of history and urban affairs, as well as for policymakers and all those concerned about the one world we inhabit.".
• catalog contributor b12201654.
• catalog coverage "United States Environmental conditions.".
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description "Effluent America is a collection of essays spanning this innovative scholar's career and the growing field of urban environmental history. Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Effluent America treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective. He charts the development of city services, the rationale for their implementation, and how they affected growth. He explores the environmental impacts of unprecedented methods of production, the influence of new forms of energy, and changing patterns of consumption during the Industrial Revolution and beyond. In so doing, he traces how one of the richest nations in the world became also the most wasteful, a juxtaposition of affluence and effluence. ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-313) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction -- pt. 1. Pollution in industrial America. Environmental crisis in the city : the relationship between industrialization and urban pollution -- Pollution and the emergence of industrial America -- Down in the dumps : Is there a garbage crisis in America? -- Hazardous waste and environmental liability: a historical perspective -- pt. 2. Urban growth and community services. The place of the city in environmental history -- Cities, technical systems, and the environment -- Sanitary services and decision making in Houston -- Community and the growth of Houston -- pt. 3. Urban environmental reform. Environmental reform in the industrial cities : the civic response to pollution in the progressive era -- Sanitary engineering in American cities: changing roles from the age of miasmas to the age of ecology -- Environmental justice, political agenda setting, and the myths of history.".
• catalog description "Other essays consider the important role of American cities in the history of the conservation and environmental movements. Melosi sketches the reforms and reformers, born out of such urban "quality of life" issues as pollution, sanitation, public health, and the need for greenspace. He also profiles the environmental justice movement, whose response to environmental problems is a question - Who bears the most risk? Urban environmental history is a window on the past, but it also directly informs issues of the present: public health, pollution, the role of government in delivering services, etc. Effluent America is an important volume for students of history and urban affairs, as well as for policymakers and all those concerned about the one world we inhabit.".
• catalog description "What's the difference between an anthill and a city? Protection from weather and predators, living and working quarters, transportation networks, food storage capability - all these they hold in common. And while there are obvious differences between humans and ants, both exist in the same space and time dimension - in nature. This simple idea, imagining cities as part of the larger physical world, has driven the work of the historian Martin Melosi for twenty-five years. Melosi is one of a handful of scholars who examine urban history from an ecological perspective, using the city to help define the place of nature in human life. Cities, he maintains, are places where humans live, work, play, consume goods, and make waste - just as humans have in caves, on farms, and in villages. To imagine the city as outside of nature limits what can be known about our past, and our future. ".
• catalog extent "xiii, 325 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Effluent America.".
• catalog identifier "0822941597 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0822957663 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Effluent America.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press,".
• catalog relation "Effluent America.".
• catalog spatial "United States Environmental conditions.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "307.76/0973 21".
• catalog subject "Cities and towns United States Growth.".
• catalog subject "Environmental degradation United States.".
• catalog subject "Environmental policy United States.".
• catalog subject "Environmental quality United States.".
• catalog subject "HT123 .M388 2001".
• catalog subject "Sociology, Urban United States.".
• catalog subject "Urban policy United States.".
• catalog subject "Urban pollution United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- pt. 1. Pollution in industrial America. Environmental crisis in the city : the relationship between industrialization and urban pollution -- Pollution and the emergence of industrial America -- Down in the dumps : Is there a garbage crisis in America? -- Hazardous waste and environmental liability: a historical perspective -- pt. 2. Urban growth and community services. The place of the city in environmental history -- Cities, technical systems, and the environment -- Sanitary services and decision making in Houston -- Community and the growth of Houston -- pt. 3. Urban environmental reform. Environmental reform in the industrial cities : the civic response to pollution in the progressive era -- Sanitary engineering in American cities: changing roles from the age of miasmas to the age of ecology -- Environmental justice, political agenda setting, and the myths of history.".
• catalog title "Effluent America : cities, industry, energy, and the environment / Martin V. Melosi.".
• catalog type "text".