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Building American Public Health: Urban Planning, Architecture, and the Quest for Better Health in the United States
R. Lopez
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Description for Building American Public Health: Urban Planning, Architecture, and the Quest for Better Health in the United States
paperback. Num Pages: 254 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JPQB; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349433797
SKU
V9781349433797
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Ref
99-15
About R. Lopez
Russell Lopez teaches Urban Environmental Health in the Boston University School of Public Health.
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