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Présentation par l'éditeur : La gestion des déchets demeure un problème dans les villes africaines. Etats, élus locaux, techniciens et usagers cherchent les moyens pour assurer la propreté des villes et…

Abstract from the conference and issue coordinators : The Planned World: Urban, Rural, Wild Conference took place over two beautiful summer days in early August, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As with The City: Culture, Society,…

Abstract from the publisher: As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and…

Abstract from the publisher : Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between…