1. 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

8. 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

12. 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

15. 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