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 Wysłany: Sob 14:33, 03 Sie 2013 Temat postu: too complex--we can't clean it." |
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| that would be used to collect garbage has to be used to plow. The garbage lingers and people put it out every day and the piles can grow kind of tall. But as soon as it's taken away, the whole structure is "invisibilized" again, because it's done well.In the book, you mention a parade in New York City in 1896 for sanitation workers where people actually showed up and cheered. What was different then?That parade took place 16 months after a guy named George Waring became commissioner of the Department of Street Cleaning--the agency that's the predecessor to today's Department of Sanitation. Before Waring, New York was infamous for the filth of the streets. The political powers said for decades, "New York is too crowded, too big, too complex--we can't clean it." It's pretty hard for a contemporary reader to imagine just how awful it was. There are photographs from 1893--before photos--and then 1895--after photos--taken in the exact same locations,jimmy choo outlet, and you're looking at garbage that is, as I describe |
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