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The Peculiar Savagery of the Engineered City - Gerard T. Koeppel. Water for Gotham: A History. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000). Pp. xvi, 355. $29.95. - Martin V. Melosi. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). Pp. xiv, 578. $59.95.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 April 2009
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1. Keating, Ann Durkin, Invisible Networks: Exploring the History of Local Utilities and Public Works (Malabar, Fla., 1994).Google ScholarWGBH Boston and Channel 4 London, The Hidden City (Princeton: Films for the Humanities, 1993).Google Scholar For a similar point, see Matthew Gandy, review of Melosi, The Sanitary City, February 2001, online posting, listserv H-Urban, available at http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews.
2. Quoted in Benjamin, Walter, Illuminations, ed. Arendt, Hannah (New York, 1968), 174.Google Scholar