An edition of Building American public health
(2012)
Building American public health
urban planning, architecture, and the quest for better health in the United States
by Russ Lopez
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"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.
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Building American public health: urban planning, architecture, and the quest for better health in the United States
2012, Palgrave Macmillan
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1137002433 9781137002433
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The urban crisis begins
The age of reform
Housing laws, zoning, and building codes
Building a suburban utopia
The lessons of modernism
Public housing
Urban renewal and highway construction
Decline and rise
A new age of cities and health
Future trends and needs.
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