HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Flush Toilet, Night Soil, Human Waste
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The nature of cities: cities are characterized by a small number of chemical processes that determine life (e. g. eating, breathing and excreting, cities are organisms > so they have a footprint, urban metabolism: to look at the inputs and outputs more closely (what cities take in and the waste they produce) Land tended to lose fertility (agriculture had a profound effect from the prairie) Forests were also affected, as there were large amounts of timber needed to build the city (mostly came from the upper midwest as they provided. White pine: tallest/oldest trees in north america, they were well suited for construction) Cronan called chicago: nature"s metropolis: the city is an agent of environmental change (e. g. the lumber industry in. Inputs: agricultural products, raw materials, commodities (e. g. chicago"s lumber industry) Outputs: waste: pre industrial cities: struggled to manage the quantities of human/animal waste and trash, division of labor: a new division of labor that brought along early modern waste removals.
