Constructing the Modern American City

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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

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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

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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

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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

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