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MELOSI, Martin. The sanitary city : environmental services in urban America from colonial times to the present. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library, 2011Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans take for granted the technologies that provide them with potable water, remove their trash, and process their wastewater. These vital services, however, are the byproduct of many decades of development by engineers, sanitarians, and civic planners.Read the book on line...