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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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Abstract:
"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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