Description: This engaging story of a singular type of building weaves for the first time architectural and social history with industrial and engineering progress to show how waterworks pulled 19th century towns back from the Sanitary Crisis that menaced civilized urban life.
Brief description: James Douet is Professor of Cultural Resource Management at CEA Study Abroad, Barcelona, an Industrial Heritage consultant and Editor of The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage Bulletin.
Review Quotes:
'Water was not only crucial to the growth of great nineteenth-century cities, but the visual symbolism of its supply and disposal found vivid expression in civic pride and dignity. Here, in this important new book, James Douet sets out how the architecture, not only of buildings but critically of the steam engines they contained, came to exemplify a style as distinctive in its own way as that of the great medieval cathedrals or the aqueducts of Rome.'
Sir Neil Cossons, former Director of the Science Museum London, and Chairman of English Heritage