Constructing the Modern American City Importance of infrastructure Subways --Frank Sprague and the...
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Constructing the Modern American City • Importance of infrastructure • Subways • --Frank Sprague and the electric street car in Richmond, VA (1888) • --London subway (1863) • --Boston subway (1897) • --New York subway (1904) • --public/private control • Power – Electrification • White City as spectacle • Samuel Insull, Commonwealth Edison, and mastery of rate structures and marketing electricity – Natural Gas • Communications • --Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone (1876) • Water • --Private companies and the early supply of water • --water systems • Sewers and Sewage Treatment • --cesspool/privy vault system • --flush toilets • --sewerage system in 1850s • --waste disposal • Pollution • --smoke—a sign of progress • --smoke abatement campaigns • --garbage collection • Boston’s Big Dig
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Transcript of Constructing the Modern American City Importance of infrastructure Subways --Frank Sprague and the...
Constructing the Modern American City
• Importance of infrastructure• Subways• --Frank Sprague and the electric street car in Richmond, VA (1888)• --London subway (1863)• --Boston subway (1897)• --New York subway (1904)• --public/private control• Power
– Electrification• White City as spectacle• Samuel Insull, Commonwealth Edison, and mastery of rate structures and marketing electricity
– Natural Gas• Communications• --Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone (1876)• Water• --Private companies and the early supply of water• --water systems• Sewers and Sewage Treatment• --cesspool/privy vault system• --flush toilets• --sewerage system in 1850s• --waste disposal• Pollution• --smoke—a sign of progress• --smoke abatement campaigns• --garbage collection• Boston’s Big Dig
Constructing the Modern American City
• Importance of infrastructure• Subways• --Frank Sprague and the electric street car in Richmond, VA (1888)• --London subway (1863)• --Boston subway (1897)• --New York subway (1904)• --public/private control• Power
– Electrification• White City as spectacle• Samuel Insull, Commonwealth Edison, and mastery of rate structures and marketing electricity
– Natural Gas• Communications• --Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone (1876)• Water• --Private companies and the early supply of water• --water systems• Sewers and Sewage Treatment• --cesspool/privy vault system• --flush toilets• --sewerage system in 1850s• --waste disposal• Pollution• --smoke—a sign of progress• --smoke abatement campaigns• --garbage collection• Boston’s Big Dig
Constructing the Modern American City
• Importance of infrastructure• Subways• --Frank Sprague and the electric street car in Richmond, VA (1888)• --London subway (1863)• --Boston subway (1897)• --New York subway (1904)• --public/private control• Power
– Electrification• White City as spectacle• Samuel Insull, Commonwealth Edison, and mastery of rate structures and marketing electricity
– Natural Gas• Communications• --Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone (1876)• Water• --Private companies and the early supply of water• --water systems• Sewers and Sewage Treatment• --cesspool/privy vault system• --flush toilets• --sewerage system in 1850s• --waste disposal• Pollution• --smoke—a sign of progress• --smoke abatement campaigns• --garbage collection• Boston’s Big Dig
Constructing the Modern American City
• Importance of infrastructure• Subways• --Frank Sprague and the electric street car in Richmond, VA (1888)• --London subway (1863)• --Boston subway (1897)• --New York subway (1904)• --public/private control• Power
– Electrification• White City as spectacle• Samuel Insull, Commonwealth Edison, and mastery of rate structures and marketing electricity
– Natural Gas• Communications• --Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone (1876)• Water• --Private companies and the early supply of water• --water systems• Sewers and Sewage Treatment• --cesspool/privy vault system• --flush toilets• --sewerage system in 1850s• --waste disposal• Pollution• --smoke—a sign of progress• --smoke abatement campaigns• --garbage collection• Boston’s Big Dig
