Author: Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. Committee of Investigation on Smoke Abatement and Electrification of Railway Terminals
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
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Smoke Abatement and Electrification of Railway Terminals in Chicago
Author: Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. Committee of Investigation on Smoke Abatement and Electrification of Railway Terminals
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
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Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Monthly Bulletin. New Series
Author: St. Louis Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Report of John F. Wallace, Chairman, Chicago Railway Terminal Commission
Author: Chicago (Ill.). Railway Terminal Commission
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Category : Railroad stations
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Category : Railroad stations
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Railway Pattern of Metropolitan Chicago
Author: Harold Melvin Mayer
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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The Age of Smoke
Author: Frank Uekötter
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822973502
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In 1880, coal was the primary energy source for everything from home heating to industry. Regions where coal was readily available, such as the Ruhr Valley in Germany and western Pennsylvania in the United States, witnessed exponential growth-yet also suffered the greatest damage from coal pollution. These conditions prompted civic activism in the form of "anti-smoke" campaigns to attack the unsightly physical manifestations of coal burning. This early period witnessed significant cooperation between industrialists, government, and citizens to combat the smoke problem. It was not until the 1960s, when attention shifted from dust and grime to hazardous invisible gases, that cooperation dissipated, and protests took an antagonistic turn.The Age of Smoke presents an original, comparative history of environmental policy and protest in the United States and Germany. Dividing this history into distinct eras (1880 to World War I, interwar, post-World War II to 1970), Frank Uekoetter compares and contrasts the influence of political, class, and social structures, scientific communities, engineers, industrial lobbies, and environmental groups in each nation. He concludes with a discussion of the environmental revolution, arguing that there were indeed two environmental revolutions in both countries: one societal, where changing values gave urgency to air pollution control, the other institutional, where changes in policies tried to catch up with shifting sentiments.Focusing on a critical period in environmental history, The Age of Smoke provides a valuable study of policy development in two modern industrial nations, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution. As Uekoetter's work reveals, the cooperative approaches developed in an earlier era offer valuable lessons and perhaps the best hope for future progress.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822973502
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In 1880, coal was the primary energy source for everything from home heating to industry. Regions where coal was readily available, such as the Ruhr Valley in Germany and western Pennsylvania in the United States, witnessed exponential growth-yet also suffered the greatest damage from coal pollution. These conditions prompted civic activism in the form of "anti-smoke" campaigns to attack the unsightly physical manifestations of coal burning. This early period witnessed significant cooperation between industrialists, government, and citizens to combat the smoke problem. It was not until the 1960s, when attention shifted from dust and grime to hazardous invisible gases, that cooperation dissipated, and protests took an antagonistic turn.The Age of Smoke presents an original, comparative history of environmental policy and protest in the United States and Germany. Dividing this history into distinct eras (1880 to World War I, interwar, post-World War II to 1970), Frank Uekoetter compares and contrasts the influence of political, class, and social structures, scientific communities, engineers, industrial lobbies, and environmental groups in each nation. He concludes with a discussion of the environmental revolution, arguing that there were indeed two environmental revolutions in both countries: one societal, where changing values gave urgency to air pollution control, the other institutional, where changes in policies tried to catch up with shifting sentiments.Focusing on a critical period in environmental history, The Age of Smoke provides a valuable study of policy development in two modern industrial nations, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution. As Uekoetter's work reveals, the cooperative approaches developed in an earlier era offer valuable lessons and perhaps the best hope for future progress.
Smoke Abatement and Electrification of Railway Terminals in Chicago
Author: Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. Committee of Investigation on Smoke Abatement and Electrification of Railway Terminals
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1177
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1177
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Transactions of the Annual Conference of State Sanitary Engineers
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Category : Sanitary engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1550
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Category : Sanitary engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1550
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Public Health Bulletin
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Energy in American History
Author: Jeffrey B. Webb
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Energy consumption
Languages : en
Pages : 1015
Book Description
"Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.S. history and the central importance of energy production and consumption on the American environment and in American culture and politics"--
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Energy consumption
Languages : en
Pages : 1015
Book Description
"Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.S. history and the central importance of energy production and consumption on the American environment and in American culture and politics"--