| Description |
1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction: Wellness and the American urban landscape -- Waste and super-infrastructure in the urban landscape -- Work and play -- Purified air in the progressive era -- Germ theory and environmental compartmentalization -- Urban decay and the metaphorical cancer of blight -- Prescriptive neighborhoods -- Whose wellness? -- The new ecology of health -- Conclusion : no green pill |
| Summary |
"The COVID-19 pandemic has re-ignited discussions of how architects, landscapes, and urban planners can shape the environment in response to disease. This challenge is both a timely topic and one with an illuminating history. In The Topography of Wellness, Sara Jensen Carr offers a chronological narrative of how six epidemics transformed the American urban landscape, reflecting changing views of the power of design, pathology of disease, and the epidemiology of the environment. From the infectious diseases of cholera and tuberculosis, to so-called "social diseases" of idleness and crime, to the more complicated origins of today's chronic diseases, each illness and its associated combat strategies has left its mark on our surroundings. While each solution succeeded in eliminating the disease on some level, sweeping environmental changes often came with significant social and physical consequences. Even more unexpectedly, some adaptations inadvertently incubated future epidemics. From the Industrial Revolution to present day, this book illuminates the constant evolution of our relationship to wellness and the environment by documenting the shifting grounds of illness and the urban landscape"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 09, 2021) |
| Subject |
Urban health -- United States -- History
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Environmental health -- United States -- History
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City planning -- Health aspects -- United States -- History
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Epidemiology -- United States -- History
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ARCHITECTURE / History / General
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City planning -- Health aspects
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Environmental health
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Epidemiology
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Urban health
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021010962 |
| ISBN |
9780813946313 |
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081394631X |
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