The Sanitary City

Melosi, Martin V.

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“…Among these technologies, the networks for the supply of pure water and sewage removal were the top priority for the US in the 1870s (Tiarr 1988); in the late 1890s, industrial solid waste, municipal waste and manure among others were the main targets for technological development aiming at reducing aesthetic nuisances and public health menaces (Melosi 2000). Industrialization attracted population to urban centres generating large amounts of waste which eventually was synonymous with air, water and soil pollution.…”

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“…Some of these, which played the role of drivers during that time, were mechanical sweepers, compactor garbage vehicles, scales to record the amount of waste collected and disposed, and engineering drainage for the removal of water from waste disposal sites (Melosi 2000;Montville 2001). Some of these, which played the role of drivers during that time, were mechanical sweepers, compactor garbage vehicles, scales to record the amount of waste collected and disposed, and engineering drainage for the removal of water from waste disposal sites (Melosi 2000;Montville 2001).…”

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“…The application of new technologies was also supported by several cities and smaller communities moving to local partnerships and regional agreements for municipal waste collection and disposal services, permitting local governments to collaborate on providing efficient waste management services (Melosi 2000). Although waste to landfill was the main practice used for solid waste disposal, the introduction of incineration as a 'waste-to-energy' technology drove waste management in a new direction.…”

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Drivers in current and future municipal solid waste management systems: cases in Yokohama and Boston

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Despite some progress, municipal solid waste (MSW) still poses pressure on cities and remains one of the major challenges in environmental management. There is no single solution to the problem since the drivers behind MSW systems may vary significantly from city to city. In this context, the development of a common strategy to attain a sustainable management has been increasingly difficult. This paper presents an issue-driven analytical framework to evaluate the past, present and future MSW management strategy for the cities of Yokohama and Boston considering four driver categories while evaluating if the relevance of these drivers has changed over time. These categories represent: (i) legal drivers (e.g. laws and regulations); (ii) technology development and institutional drivers (e.g. available technologies); (iii) regional and international drivers (e.g. solid waste flow as recyclable resources); and (iv) socio-economic drivers (e.g. population trends and public awareness). The analysis indicated that solid waste management capacity for both cases was under stress due to different reasons. In the case of Boston, the moratorium for disposal facilities played an important role while increasing population was a key driver for the city of Yokohama. The future management scenario suggests that various waste-to-energy alternatives and strong solid waste reduction policies will play a key role for Boston. In Yokohama, a shift on waste composition and generation triggered by a demographic change may open the path for new technologies while also considering the international demand of solid waste as a recyclable resource.

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“…79 Long before the implementation of phosphorus regulations in the United States, Mexican inventors understood the need to change match production practices because consumers demanded healthy alternatives to ordinary matches. 80 Urban spatial factors also determined the types of inventions people deemed necessary for the capital. Announcing fires by ringing the nearest church bell caused problems in a growing city.…”

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Safety by design: engineers and entrepreneurs invent fire safety in Mexico City, 1860–1910

Alexander

2013

Urban History

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This article examines fire-safety innovations (safety matches, extinguishers and hydrants) from professional engineers and lay inventors in Mexico City from 1860-1910. With a drastic increase in the frequency and intensity of fires in the capital, engineers and entrepreneurs saw fire hazards as business opportunities. Global trends that promoted patenting new technologies spurred entrepreneurs and professionals alike to transform the capital into an epicentre of innovation aimed at making the city safer. Their inventions marked the city with visible signs of technological change and reminded residents that fire was a real threat to urban life.

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“…Some books are equally crucial to both scholarly discourses-Martin Melosi's The Sanitary City, Joel Tarr's The Search for the Ultimate Sink, or William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis, to name just three. 1 For at least twenty years now, practitioners of urban history and environmental history have recognized and written about the links between these two closely related lines of historical inquiry. 2 Thus, I hope that what I have to say about an experiment in teaching environmental history will be recognized as having some significant overlap with the courses that readers of this journal might teach as well.…”

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In and Out of the Field

Lewis¹

2009

Journal of Urban History

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In this article I describe and discuss my attempt to design an entire course around a shared class project of conducting applied local environmental history research leading to an online book. Although I am an environmental historian, this course draws heavily on urban history as well. I start with the concrete details of my current course design, followed by some reflections on my previous attempts at teaching this course. Ultimately, I believe that both urban and environmental history courses would benefit from attempting to get our students into the field and conducting local research that links physical places to written documents and narratives. This provides the students the opportunity to connect history with physical places that they can visit and experience. We would be remiss if we did not use this inherent advantage that we have as urban and/or environmental historians. Through this "field history," we can reach students and teach them how to truly engage in the practice and art of history.

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The Sanitary City

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Drivers in current and future municipal solid waste management systems: cases in Yokohama and Boston

Drivers in current and future municipal solid waste management systems: cases in Yokohama and Boston

Safety by design: engineers and entrepreneurs invent fire safety in Mexico City, 1860–1910

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