Building American public health
Subtitle: urban planning, architecture, and the quest for better health in the United States
By: Russell Lopez
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781137002433
Subjects: Social Conditions; Public Health; Architecture as Topic; Housing; Social Planning
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: The urban crisis begins; title: The age of reform; title: Housing laws, zoning, and building codes; title: Building a suburban utopia; title: The lessons of modernism; title: Public housing; title: Urban renewal and highway construction; title: Decline and rise; title: A new age of cities and health; title: Future trends and needs.