Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris
(Part of the Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment Series)
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Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth century. Sun-Young Park reveals how anxieties about health and social order, which manifested in emerging ideals of the body, created a uniquely spatial and urban experience of modernity in the postrevolutionary capital, one profoundly impacted by hygiene, mobility, productivity, leisure, spectacle,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0822945282
ISBN13:9780822945284
Release Date:May 2018
Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:2.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 7.3" x 10.0"
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