Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply

Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply Soll David Wydawca: Cornell University Press Data wydania: 2018 ISBN: 9781501725111 Liczba stron: 300 Format: 153 x 228 x 27 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation s largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and built environment of the city, its suburbs, and distant rural watersheds. Almost as soon as...