The Topography of Wellness : How Health and Disease Shaped the American Landscape /

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"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 chronologica...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Carr, Sara Jensen (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Urban health.
Epidemiology.
Environmental health.
City planning > Health aspects.
Epidemiology > United States > History.
City planning > Health aspects > United States > History.
Environmental health > United States > History.
Urban health > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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