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Séries : livres de la série History of the Urban Environment
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Garbage in the Cities
Martin Melosi
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a t... Savoir plus
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Paris After Haussmann
Peter S Soppelsa
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris in 1853-1870, branded "Haussma... Savoir plus
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City on Fire
Anna Rose
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk ... Savoir plus
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Refining Nature
Jonathan Wlasiuk
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture 90 percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during th... Savoir plus
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A Negotiated Landscape
Jasper Rubin
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco's iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millenn... Savoir plus
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Rivers in History
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- Throughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience. They have demarcated mythological worlds, framed th... Savoir plus
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City of Lake and Prairie
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet--City of Lake and Prairie--with this compelling, inn... Savoir plus
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London
John Broich
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons d... Savoir plus
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River City and Valley Life
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- Often referred to as "the Big Tomato," Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. I... Savoir plus
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Urban Infrastructure
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- Urban Infrastructures creates space for an encounter between historians, humanists, and social scientists who seek new methodological approaches to th... Savoir plus
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The Age of Smoke
Frank Uekötter
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- In 1880, coal was the primary energy source for everything from home heating to industry. Regions where coal was readily available, such as the Ruhr V... Savoir plus
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Metropolitan Natures
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- One of the oldest metropolitan areas in North America, Montreal has evolved from a remote fur-trading post in New France into an international center ... Savoir plus
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Fordism and the City
Jay Cephas
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- In the early twentieth century, the Ford Motor Company built an industrial empire with massive factory complexes and associated infrastructures. Henry... Savoir plus
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Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs
Craig Colten
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- Human settlement of the Lower Mississippi River Valley--especially in New Orleans, the region\u2019s largest metropolis--has produced profound and dra... Savoir plus
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Effluent America
Martin Melosi
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews an... Savoir plus
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A Mighty Capital Under Threat
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the "new Rome," first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-... Savoir plus
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Paris After Haussmann
Peter S Soppelsa
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris in 1853-1870, branded "Haussma... Savoir plus
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Rivers in History
- Livre relié | History of the Urban Environment
- Throughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience. Rivers in History is a broad environmental history ... Savoir plus
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Between Ruin and Restoration
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- The environmental history of Israel is as intriguing and complex as the nation itself. Situated on a mere 8,630 square miles, bordered by the Mediterr... Savoir plus
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Weeds
Zachary Falck
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- As long as humans have existed, theyÆve worked and competed with plants to shape their surroundings. As cities developed and expanded, their diverse s... Savoir plus
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Energy Capitals
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment | n° 66
- Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As Energy Capital... Savoir plus
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The Lung Block
Adrienne Denoyelles
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- Public health, housing, poverty, and immigration dominated social and political discourse in early twentieth-century New York, much as they do today. ... Savoir plus
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Fordism and the City
Jay Cephas
- Livre relié | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- In the early twentieth century, the Ford Motor Company built an industrial empire with massive factory complexes and associated infrastructures. Henry... Savoir plus
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Devastation and Renewal
- Livre broché | Anglais | History of the Urban Environment
- Every city has an environmental story, perhaps none so dramatic as Pittsburgh's. Founded in a river valley blessed with enormous resources-three stron... Savoir plus
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