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Salutogenic Urbanism

Architecture and Public Health in Early Modern European Cities

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Editors:
  1. Mohammad Gharipour

    1. University of Maryland, College Park, USA

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  2. Anatole Tchikine

    1. Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, Washington, USA

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  • Fills a gap by with the first comprehensive analysis on healthy cities and healthcare facilities in the early-modern era

  • Will appeal to scholars at architecture, urban planning, medicine, public health, sociology, geography and history

  • Offers an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to provide a new setting for the analysis of hospital design

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction: Achieving a Healthy City in Early Modern Europe

    • Anatole Tchikine, Mohammad Gharipour
    Pages 1-46

  4. Salutogenic Infrastructure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Architecture and Infrastructure: The Salutogenetic Plan for Karlsruhe

      • Joaquín Medina Warmburg, Nina Rind, Nikolaus Koch
      Pages 127-154

    3. “Private Vices, Public Benefits”: Self-interest and Salutogenesis in Early Modern York

      • Ann-Marie Akehurst
      Pages 155-200

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 329-341
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Maryland, College Park, USA

    Mohammad Gharipour

  • Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, Washington, USA

    Anatole Tchikine

About the editors

Mohammad Gharipour is Professor and Director of the Architecture Program at the University of Maryland, USA. He has received many prestigious awards and has authored, edited, and co-edited thirteen books including Persian Gardens and Pavilions (2013) and Health and Architecture (2021). He is the director and founding editor of the award-winning International Journal of Islamic Architecture, the co-founder of the Epidemic Urbanism Initiative, and the second vice president of the Society of Architectural Historians. 
Anatole Tchikine is Curator of Rare Books at Dumbarton Oaks, an institute of Harvard University in Washington, DC. An architectural historian and specialist on early modern Italy, his scholarly work explores the intersections of art, science, and urbanism. He is the author, with Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey, of Francesco Ignazio Lazzari’s “Discrizione della Villa Pliniana”: Reimagining Antiquity in the Landscape of Umbria (2021) and coeditor of The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century (2016) and Military Landscapes (2021).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Salutogenic Urbanism

  • Book Subtitle: Architecture and Public Health in Early Modern European Cities

  • Editors: Mohammad Gharipour, Anatole Tchikine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7851-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7850-0Published: 01 September 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7853-1Due: 15 September 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-7851-7Published: 31 August 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 341

  • Number of Illustrations: 86 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology, Medical Sociology, Arts

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