Martin V. Melosi
Autor(a) de The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present
About the Author
Martin V. Melosi is Distinguished University Professor of History and director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston.
Image credit: Martin V. Melosi. UH Photographs Collection.
Obras de Martin V. Melosi
The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (1999) 46 cópias
Garbage In The Cities: Refuse Reform and the Environment (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ) (1981) 39 cópias
Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America (Library of American Biography Series) (1990) 27 cópias
Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ) (2001) 10 cópias
Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ) (2007) 9 cópias
Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America's Cities (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ) (2011) 8 cópias
The Shadow of Pearl Harbor: Political Controversy Over the Surprise Attack, 1941-1946 (1977) 4 cópias
Urban Public Policy: Historical Modes and Methods (Issues in Policy History ; #3) (1993) 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: Documents and Essays (1993) — Contribuinte — 76 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1947
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Ocupação
- historian
- Organizações
- University of Houston
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Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 193
- Popularidade
- #113,337
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 38
Early sanitation techniques rested largely upon individual households—privy closets, for example—and private enterprises such as scavengers and water contractors. Municipal sanitation was rudimentary if not outright nonexistent. Beginning in the early 1800sa new 'sanitary ideal' became more widespread thanks to the efforts of individuals such as Edwin Chadwick. This ideal linked filth to the spread of disease; thus more effective methods of waste removal and pure water supply would have a greater impact upon the prevention of disease (4). This ideal was refined as the nature of disease and germs became more widely known.
Because privately owned companies were either unable or unwilling to embark upon sewerage development, this became a service of the city government. Though not widely accepted at first, the idea of 'out of sight, out of mind' lent itself to the construction of underground sewage systems; eventually the idea that preventing human contact with waste to prevent disease would extend from sewage to solid waste disposal in landfills.
Melosi's groundbreaking integration of water supply, wastewater and solid waste disposal won several awards for the breadth of his scholarship. Melosi grounds his work in extensive research in both primary documents—industry documents, court cases, legislation, etc.—and the secondary literature.… (mais)