But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization.
By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions.
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