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Building American public health : urban planning, architecture, and the quest for better health in the United States
- Title
- Building American public health : urban planning, architecture, and the quest for better health in the United States / Russell Lopez.
- Author
- Lopez, Russ.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 254 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "From the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century to the rise of the obesity epidemic after 1980, a long series of reformers and advocates have sought to protect and promote health by manipulating how we build housing and neighborhoods. This book is a history of using urban planning and architecture to better public health in the United Sates. It highlights the work of tenement reformers, zoning advocates, modernist architects, new urbanists, and members of the new built environment and health movement, among others, to improve the health and social conditions of their time by modifying the environment around them"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Contents
- The urban life and health in the nineteenth century -- Nineteenth-century reform movements -- Housing laws, zoning, and building codes -- Building a suburban utopia -- Modernism and the scientific construction of the built environment -- Public housing -- Urban renewal and highway construction -- Decline and rise -- A new age of cities and health -- Future trends and needs.
- ISBN
- 9781137002433 (hardback)
- 1137002433 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2011047570
- 99949660601
- OCLC
- 759175573
- ocn759175573
- SCSB-5643651
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries