Author: Public Affairs Information ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service
Author: Public Affairs Information ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Author: Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service, a Cooperative Clearing House of Public Affairs Information
Author: Public Affairs Information ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
City Planning
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
City Planning
Author: Planning, Current Literature
Author: Housing in Philadelphia ...
Author: Philadelphia Housing AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Annual Message of ... Mayor of the City of Philadelphia
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). MayorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
American Sunshine
Author: Daniel FreundPublisher: 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.