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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 that clogged streets and overwhelmed the senses of residents. Martin Melosi offered the first history of efforts begun in the Progressive Era to clean up this mess.

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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning The environment Waste management

• Full title: Garbage In The Cities
• Subtitle: Refuse Reform and the Environment
• Author: Martin V. Melosi
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780822958574
• ISBN: 9780822958574
• ID: 06334455
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Weight: 542 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 157 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. November 2004

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