Constructing the Modern American City Importance of infrastructure Subways --Frank Sprague and the...

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• --flush toilets• --sewerage system in 1850s• --waste disposal• Pollution• --smoke—a sign of progress• --smoke abatement campaigns• --garbage collection• Boston’s Big Dig

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• --flush toilets• --sewerage system in 1850s• --waste disposal• Pollution• --smoke—a sign of progress• --smoke abatement campaigns• --garbage collection• Boston’s Big Dig

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• --flush toilets• --sewerage system in 1850s• --waste disposal• Pollution• --smoke—a sign of progress• --smoke abatement campaigns• --garbage collection• Boston’s Big Dig

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• --flush toilets• --sewerage system in 1850s• --waste disposal• Pollution• --smoke—a sign of progress• --smoke abatement campaigns• --garbage collection• Boston’s Big Dig