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Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Landscape Architecture
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Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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National Municipal Review
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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American Sunshine
Author: Daniel Freund
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226262812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide of the "diseases of darkness," especially rickets and tuberculosis. In American Sunshine, Daniel Freund tracks the obsession with sunlight from those bleak days into the twentieth century. Before long, social reformers, medical professionals, scientists, and a growing nudist movement proffered remedies for America’s new dark age. Architects, city planners, and politicians made access to sunlight central to public housing and public health. and entrepreneurs, dairymen, and tourism boosters transformed the pursuit of sunlight and its effects into a commodity. Within this historical context, Freund sheds light on important questions about the commodification of health and nature and makes an original contribution to the histories of cities, consumerism, the environment, and medicine.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226262812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide of the "diseases of darkness," especially rickets and tuberculosis. In American Sunshine, Daniel Freund tracks the obsession with sunlight from those bleak days into the twentieth century. Before long, social reformers, medical professionals, scientists, and a growing nudist movement proffered remedies for America’s new dark age. Architects, city planners, and politicians made access to sunlight central to public housing and public health. and entrepreneurs, dairymen, and tourism boosters transformed the pursuit of sunlight and its effects into a commodity. Within this historical context, Freund sheds light on important questions about the commodification of health and nature and makes an original contribution to the histories of cities, consumerism, the environment, and medicine.
Publications
Author: National Housing Association
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service
Author: Public Affairs Information Service
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Report by City Planning Commission
Author: Pittsburgh (Pa.). Department of City Planning
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Notes - Municipal Reference and Research Center
Author: Municipal Reference and Research Center (New York, N.Y.)
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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The Americana Annual
Author: Alexander Hopkins McDannald
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Book Bulletin
Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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