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Fat of the land : garbage in New York : the last two hundred years

Author: Benjamin Miller
Publisher: New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, ©2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Examines the history of refuse disposal in New York and includes a chronology of waste management and related disease control in the Western World from 1830-2000."
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Benjamin Miller
ISBN: 1568581726 9781568581729
OCLC Number: 44550529
Description: xxii, 414 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: Prologue: Garbarge --
Engineering Reform --
The Greatest Happiness --
Grease --
Expanding Opportunities --
Friends --
Enemies --
Public Work --
Roads and Rails --
Bridges and Tunnels --
Parks and Parkways --
Ports and Airports --
Landscape Sculpture --
Citizens and Scientists --
Taking Heat --
Two Paths --
Waste Management --
Hauling Biomass --
Epilogue: Pew Yew Choo-Choo.
Responsibility: Benjamin Miller.
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"Examines the history of refuse disposal in New York and includes a chronology of waste management and related disease control in the Western World from 1830-2000."

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