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Building American Public Health

Urban Planning, Architecture, and the Quest for Better Health in the United States

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  1. Russell Lopez

    1. Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, Northeastern University, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Russell Lopez
    Pages 1-8

  3. Urban Life and Health in the Nineteenth Century

    • Russell Lopez
    Pages 9-24

  4. Nineteenth-Century Reform Movements

    • Russell Lopez
    Pages 25-46

  5. Housing Laws, Zoning, and Building Codes

    • Russell Lopez
    Pages 47-66

  6. Building a Suburban Utopia

    • Russell Lopez
    Pages 67-80

  7. Modernism and the Scientific Construction of the Built Environment

    • Russell Lopez
    Pages 81-97

  8. Public Housing

    • Russell Lopez
    Pages 99-117

  9. Urban Renewal and Highway Construction

    • Russell Lopez
    Pages 119-138

  10. Decline and Rise

    • Russell Lopez
    Pages 139-159

  11. A New Age of Cities and Health

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    Pages 161-179

  12. Future Trends and Needs

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    Pages 181-189

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 191-254
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, Northeastern University, USA

    Russell Lopez

About the author

Russell Lopez teaches Urban Environmental Health in the Boston University School of Public Health.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Building American Public Health

  • Book Subtitle: Urban Planning, Architecture, and the Quest for Better Health in the United States

  • Authors: Russell Lopez

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002440

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Russell Lopez 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-00243-3Published: 04 May 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43379-7Published: 04 May 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-00244-0Published: 04 May 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 254

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social History, Medical Sociology, Politics of the Welfare State, US History, Modern History, Social Policy

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