Monthly Archive: October, 2019

City Water, City Life – Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

City Water, City Life – Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts In City Water, City Life, historian and author Carl Smith explores the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. Smith shows how the discussion, design, and use of waterworks reveal how Americans framed their conceptions of urban democracy and...