Salutogenic Urbanism: Architecture and Public Health in Early Modern European Cities (1st ed. 2023)

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Synopsis
This book offers a new, salutogenic, perspective on the development of early modern cities by exploring profound and complex ways in which architecture and landscape design served to promote public health on an urban scale. Focusing on fifteenth- through nineteenth-century Europe, it addresses the histories of spaces and institutions that supported salubrious living, highlighting the intersections of medical theory, government policy, and architectural practice in designing, improving, and monumentalizing the infrastructure of sanitation and healthcare. Studies in this book highlight the joint role of design thinking and scientific practice in reforming the facilities for treating and preventing disease; the impact of cross-cultural exchange on early modern strategies of urban improvement; and the creation of new therapeutic environments through state, communal, and private initiatives concerned with the preservation of physical and mental health, from recreational landscapes to spa resorts.
Copyright:
2023

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9789811978517
Related ISBNs:
9789811978500
Publisher:
Springer Nature Singapore
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The Editor
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Medicine, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Mohammad Gharipour
Edited by:
Anatole Tchikine

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