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Epidemic Urbanism - Contagious Diseases in Global Cities (Hardcover, New edition)
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Epidemic Urbanism - Contagious Diseases in Global Cities (Hardcover, New edition)
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Includes 36 chapters that deploy interdisciplinary approaches to
the analysis of the mutual relationship between pandemics and the
built environment. The chapters share the story of a pandemic in a
particular city or region from five continents, and are organized
in four sections to convey the mechanisms of change that affect
vulnerabilities and responses to epidemic illnesses: 'Urban
Governance', 'Urban Life', 'Urban Infrastructure' and 'Urban Design
and Planning'. Two prominent scholars from the disciplines of
public health and medical anthropology provide a prologue and
epilogue: Sandro Galea writes on 'Pandemics and urban health', and
Richard J. Jackson on 'Urbanism and architecture in the post-COVID
era'. The contributors to this new study are historians, public
health experts, art and architectural historians, sociologists,
anthropologists, doctors and nurses. In researching their
contributions, all have spoken to an audience that includes the
public, practitioners and academic readers; the resultant case
studies reveal a diverse range of urban interventions that are
connected to the impact of epidemics on society and urban life, as
well as the conceptualization of and response to disease. Epidemic
illnesses - not only a product of biology, but also social and
cultural phenomena - are as old as cities themselves. The recent
pandemic has put into perspective the impact of epidemic illness on
urban life and exposed the vulnerabilities of the societies it
ravages as much as the bodies it infects. How can epidemics help us
understand urban environments? How might insights from the outbreak
and responses to previous urban epidemics inform our understanding
of the current world? With these questions in mind, this book
gathers scholarship from a range of disciplines to present case
studies from across the globe, each demonstrating how cities in
particular are not just the primary place of exposure and
quarantine, but also the site and instrument of intervention. This
book seeks to explore the profound and complex ways that
architecture and landscape design were impacted by historical
epidemics around the world, from North America to Africa and
Australia, and to convey this information in a way that
meaningfully engages a public readership. The chapters analyse the
development of urban infrastructure, institutions and spaces in
western and eastern societies in response to historical pandemics.
They also demonstrate how epidemic illnesses, and their responses,
exploit and amplify social inequality in the urban contexts and
communities they impact.
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