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.
Chapter 1: Salutogenic Urbanism: Early Modern European Cities in Pursuit
of Public Health.- Part I Dynamics of Isolation.
Chapter 2: Health,
Architecture, and Urban Identity: The Hospital Real de Todos-os-Santos in
Sixteenth-Century Lisbon.
Chapter 3: Architecture and Plague Prevention: The
Development of Lazzaretti in Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean Cities.- Part
II Salutogenic Infrastructure.
Chapter 4: Architecture and Infrastructure:
The Salutogenetic Plan for Karlsruhe.
Chapter 5: Private Vices, Public
Benefits: Self-interest and Salutogenesis in Early Modern York.- Part III
Spaces of Madness.
Chapter 6: Madness in the Early Modern City: Florence and
the Public Health Nexus (16421788).
Chapter 7: Rationalization of Space,
Rationalization of Madness: Louis-Hippolyte Lebas and the Development of
Psychiatric Hospitals in Nineteenth-Century France.- Part IV Spa cities.-
Chapter 8: Cure, Leisure, and Exercise: The Emerging Spa Landscapes in
Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Hungary.
Chapter 9: Promoting
Health through Urban Planning: Spa Towns and Urban Development in
Nineteenth-Century Greece.
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 Ruffiničre du Prey, of Francesco Ignazio Lazzaris 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).
