Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment: 1880-1980 by Martin V. Melosi

Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ

Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment: 1880-1980

Martin V. Melosi

268 pages hardcover

2 editions

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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 thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and overwhelmed the senses of resi...

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