...Stephanie Tam The development of Ahmedabad's sewerage system both impinged upon and was itself modified to accommodate India's caste structure. Sewers became markers of legitimacy, sophistication, and moral citizenship through the notion of the “civic sense,” having corporeal, political...

... focuses exclusively on the history of freshwater. The four feature articles explore the history of water from different perspec- tives. Stephanie Tam examines the history of sewerage in Ahmedabad, India. She describes how sewerage became a tool of modernization and technological change...

... School of Design in 2011, focusing on sanitation and urban poverty. Her 2010 fieldwork on Ahmedabad sewerage was generously supported by the Landscape Architecture Depart- ment’s Penny White Award, Bimal Patel, and the Urban Management Center. doi 10.1215/01636545-2153560 ...

... and railways to the cen- tral government and specializing in acquiring land and making it available for indus- try.62 After incorporating Added Areas, the corporation planned for sewerage and waste disposal, water supply, “nonwhite” housing, roads, mosquito-­breeding preven- tion, and public health...

... on racially exclusive suburban development, wherein white suburbaniza- tion was subsidized by public funding in the form of federally and state-­subsidized development of roads, sewerage systems, and highways as an intentional strategy of distancing Metro Detroit from the city itself, and as someone who...