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Building American Public Health - Urban Planning, Architecture, and the Quest for Better Health in the United States (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,525
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Building American Public Health - Urban Planning, Architecture, and the Quest for Better Health in the United States...

Building American Public Health - Urban Planning, Architecture, and the Quest for Better Health in the United States (Hardcover)

R. Lopez

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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. 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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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: R. Lopez
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-00243-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning - architectural aspects
Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General
Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
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LSN: 1-137-00243-3
Barcode: 9781137002433

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