Alexis Schulman
Researcher and historian of stormwater management whose dissertation and expertise on institutional change and urban stormwater history are cited throughout the episode.
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Jan 7, 2020 • 48min
How Philadelphia's Water Pollution Problems Shaped the City
Adam Levine, historian at the Philadelphia Water Department, Alexis Schulman, stormwater history researcher, and Rigoberto Hernandez, reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, trace three centuries of the city’s water story. They cover Dock Creek’s burial, Fairmount Waterworks and early sanitation, the rise of combined sewers, filtration and chlorination, and the modern debate between gray tunnels and green infrastructure.
