Building American Public Health : Urban Planning, Architecture, and the Quest for Better Health in the United States
by
R. Lopez
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1137002433
ISBN-13
9781137002433
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 4th, 2012
Print length
254 Pages
Weight
438 grams
Dimensions
14.40 x 22.20 x 2.00 cms
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This historical study looks at how reformers have used urban planning and architecture to improve the health of urban residents of the United States.
This historical study looks at how reformers have used urban planning and architecture to improve the health of urban residents of the United States. It begins in the nineteenth century, when problems in rapidly urbanizing cities threatened to overwhelm cities, and then traces the development and impact of reform movements up through the First World War, including discussions of model tenements, the ''city beautiful'' movement, tenement laws, and zoning and building codes. Midcentury design movements, such as new efforts to plan suburbs and Modernism, along with outlines of the impacts of public housing, highway building, and urban renewal, are the focus of the middle chapters of the book. The final third examines the revival of cities and the reconnection of public health with urban planning that occurred as the twentieth century ended.
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