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Epidemic Urbanism: Contagious Diseases in Global Cities

Author/EditorGharipour, Mohammad (Morgan State Univer (Author)
DeClercq, Caitlin (Author)
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 9781789384703
Pub Date17/12/2021
BindingPaperback
Pages408
EditionNew Ed
Dimensions (mm)244(h) * 170(w)
The recent pandemic has put into perspective the impact of epidemic illness on urban life and exposed the vulnerabilities of societies. Interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe explore what insights from the outbreak, experience, and response to previous epidemics might inform our understanding of the current world. 150 b/w illus.
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This volume includes essays that deploy interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of the mutual relationship between pandemics and the built environment. The chapters cover case studies from all five continents. Each chapter will focus on the story of a pandemic in a particular city or region. The chapters will be brief (1700-2000 words) and will be developed based on a strict structure provided by the book editors. Each chapter will include historical context (500 words), case study (700 words), and conclusion (300 words). Each chapter will include 3-4 historical images that depict historical epidemics and pandemics. The book will be opened and concluded by two well-known scholars from public health and medical anthropology. These two chapters will address pandemics and epidemics in the last fifty years as well as the COVID-19 crisis and how history helps us have a better understanding of the post-COVID era.

This volume includes essays that deploy interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of the mutual relationship between pandemics and the built environment. The chapters cover case studies from all five continents. Each chapter will focus on the story of a pandemic in a particular city or region. The chapters will be brief (1700-2000 words) and will be developed based on a strict structure provided by the book editors. Each chapter will include historical context (500 words), case study (700 words), and conclusion (300 words). Each chapter will include 3-4 historical images that depict historical epidemics and pandemics. The book will be opened and concluded by two well-known scholars from public health and medical anthropology. These two chapters will address pandemics and epidemics in the last fifty years as well as the COVID-19 crisis and how history helps us have a better understanding of the post-COVID era.

Mohammad Gharipour is professor and director of the Architecture Graduate Program at the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore, USA. Caitlin DeClercq is an assistant director at Columbia University's Center for Teaching and Learning. Along with Mohammad Gharipour, she is the co-founder of the Epidemic Urbanism Initiative.

Preface - Mohammad Gharipour and Caitlin DeClercq Prologue: Pandemics and urban health - Sandro Galea PART 1: URBAN GOVERNANCE: POLITICS AND MANAGEMENT 1. Plague in Sibiu and the first quarantine plan in Central Europe, 1510 - Katalin Szende and Otto Gecser 2. Mughal governance, mobility, and responses to the plague in Agra, India, 1618-19 - Mehreen Chida-Razvi 3. Urban governance, economic intervention, and the plague in Bristol, England, 1665-66 - Andrew Wells 4. Smallpox and the specter of Mexican citizenship, 1826 - Farren Yero 5. Complacency, confusion, and the mismanagement of cholera in York, England, 1832 - Ann-Marie Akehurst 6. Cholera, the Roman aqueduct, and urban renewal in Naples, Italy, 1860-1914 - Sofia Greaves 7. The contested governance of border railways and the plague of Northeast China, 1910-11 - Yongming Chen and Yishen Chen 8. Print, politics, and the smallpox epidemic in Terre Haute, USA, 1902-3 - Allen Shotwell 9. Colonialism, racism, and the government response to bubonic plague in Nairobi, Kenya, 1895-1910 - Catherine Odari PART 2: URBAN LIFE: CULTURE AND SOCIETY 10. Women, social solidarities, and the plague in 17th-century Newcastle, England - Rachel Clamp 11. The Jewish ghetto as a space of quarantine in Prague, 1713 - Joshua Teplitsky 12. Hygiene and urban life in the 'District of Death' in 19th-century Istanbul - Fezanur Karaagaclioglu 13. Religious rituals and cholera in the shrine cities of 19th-century Iran - Fuchsia Hart 14. Social life, illness, and the marketplace in Kumasi, Ghana, from the 20th century to the present - George Osei and Shobana Shankar 15. The city as field hospital and the influenza epidemic in Seattle, USA, 1918-19 - Louisa Iarocci 16. Rural migrants, smallpox, and civic surgery in 20th-century Baghdad, Iraq - Huma Gupta 17. House, social Life, and smallpox in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1963 - Susan Heydon 18. Meningitis, shared environments, and inequality in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1971-75 - Daniela Sandler PART 3: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE: PERMANENCE AND CHANGE 19. Epidemics and the royal control of public health in Lisbon, Portugal, 1480-95 - Danielle Abdon 20. The Guadalquivir River and plague in Seville, Spain, in the 16th century - Kristy Wilson Bowers 21. Social inequity and hospital infrastructure in the City of Puebla, Mexico, 1737 - Juan Luis Burke 22. Colonial infrastructure, ecology, and epidemics in Dhaka, 1858-1947 - Mohammad Hossain 23. South American health conventions, social stratification, and the Ilha Grande Lazaretto in Brazil, 1886 - Niuxa Dias Drago, Ana Paula Polizzo, and Fernando Delgado 24. Plague, displacement, and ecological disruption in Bombay, India, 1896 - Emily Webster 25. French urbanism, Vietnamese resistance, and the plague in Hanoi, Vietnam, 1885-1910 - Michael Vann 26. Building a community on Leprosy Island in the Philippines, 1898-1941 - Mary Anne Alabanza Akers 27. Shifting health paradigms and infrastructure in Australia in the 20th century - Karen Daws and Julie Willis PART 4: URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING: INTERVENTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 28. Urban design, social epidemiology, and the bubonic plague of Palermo, Italy, 1575-76 - Carlo Trombino 29. Cholera and housing reform in Victorian London, England, 1850-1900 - Irina Davidovici 30. Public health, urban development, and cholera in Tokyo, Japan, 1877-95 - Susan L. Burns 31. The Hong Kong plague and public parks in the British settlements of Shanghai and Tianjin, China, 1894 - Yichi Zhang 32. Rebuilding the British Seamen's Hospital at Smyrna in the wake of smallpox and cholera epidemics, 1892 - Isilay Tiarnagh Sheridan Gun and Erdem Erten 33. Spatial change and the cholera epidemic in Manila, the Philippines, 1902-4 - Ian Morley 34. Plague, housing, and battles over segregation in colonial Dakar, Senegal, 1914 - Gregory Valdespino 35. Urban transformation and public health policies

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