Building American public health : urban planning, architecture, and the quest for better health in the United States / Russell Lopez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lopez, Russ.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing and health--United States.

Housing and health.

Public health--United States.

Public health.

United States.

Housing policy--United States.

Housing policy.

Architecture.

Public Health.

Housing.

Social Conditions.

Social Planning.

Medical Subjects:

Architecture.

United States.

Public Health.

Housing.

Social Conditions.

Social Planning.

Physical Description:

xvi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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.

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

1137002433

OCLC:

759175573