Abel Wolman Award

Given by Public Works Historical Society

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Established by the Public Works Historical Society, the Abel Wolman Award recognizes the single best new book published in the field of public works history. This award is intended to provide vis mere encouragement and recognition to historians whose research and publications have made outstanding contributions to the history of public works vis mindre
Years:
Alle, 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1)
VærkÅr
Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply af David Soll
2014
Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America af Christopher C. Sellers
2013
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston af Michael Rawson
2011
Paying the Toll: Local Power, Regional Politics, and the Golden Gate Bridge af Louise Nelson Dyble
2010
Paving the Way: New York Road Building and the American State, 1880-1956 af Michael R. Fein
2009
Building Louisiana : the legacy of the Public Works Administration af Robert D. Leighninger
2008
Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956 af Jason Scott Smith
2007
Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago af Harold L. Platt
2006
Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles af Jared Orsi
2005
Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898--1938 af Keith D. Revell
2004
Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 af Donald J. Pisani
2003
Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority af Jameson W. Doig
2002
The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present af Martin V. Melosi
2001
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash af Susan Strasser
2000
Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland (Development of Western Resources) af Sarah S. Elkind
1999
Structures in the Stream: Water, Science, and the Rise of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers af Todd Shallat
1995
Mixing the Waters: Envrionment, Politics, and the Building of the Tennessee -Tombigee Waterway (The University of Akron Press Series on Technology) af Jeffrey K. Stine
1994
The Park and the People: A History of Central Park af Roy Rosenzweig
1993
The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930 af Harold L. Platt
1992
Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940 af David E. Nye
1991
Constructing urban culture : American cities and city planning, 1800-1920 af Stanley K. Schultz
1990
Technology and the rise of the networked city in Europe and America af Joel A. Tarr
1989
Building the American highway system : engineers as policy makers af Bruce Edsall Seely
1988
The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America af Christine Meisner Rosen
1987

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