The recent pandemic has put into perspective the impact of epidemic illness on urban life and exposed the vulnerabilities of societies. Interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe explore what insights from the outbreak, experience and response to previous epidemics might inform our understanding of the current world. 150 b/w illus.
Preface – Mohammad Gharipour and Caitlin DeClercq
Prologue: Pandemics and urban health – Sandro Galea
PART 1: URBAN GOVERNANCE: POLITICS AND MANAGEMENT
1. Plague in Sibiu and the first quarantine plan in Central Europe, 1510 – Katalin Szende and Ottó Gecser
2. Mughal governance, mobility, and responses to the plague in Agra, India, 1618–19 – Mehreen Chida-Razvi
3. Urban governance, economic intervention, and the plague in Bristol, England, 1665–66 –Andrew Wells
4. Smallpox and the specter of Mexican citizenship, 1826 – Farren Yero
5. Complacency, confusion, and the mismanagement of cholera in York, England, 1832 –Ann-Marie Akehurst
6. Cholera, the Roman aqueduct, and urban renewal in Naples, Italy, 1860–1914 – Sofia Greaves
7. The contested governance of border railways and the plague of Northeast China, 1910–11 –Yongming Chen and Yishen Chen
8. Print, politics, and the smallpox epidemic in Terre Haute, USA, 1902–3 –Allen Shotwell
9. Colonialism, racism, and the government response to bubonic plague in Nairobi, Kenya, 1895–1910 –Catherine Odari
PART 2: URBAN LIFE: CULTURE AND SOCIETY
10. Women, social solidarities, and the plague in 17th-century Newcastle, England –Rachel Clamp
11. The Jewish ghetto as a space of quarantine in Prague, 1713 –Joshua Teplitsky
12. Hygiene and urban life in the 'District of Death' in 19th-century Istanbul – Fezanur Karaağaçlıoğlu
13. Religious rituals and cholera in the shrine cities of 19th-century Iran – Fuchsia Hart
14. Social life, illness, and the marketplace in Kumasi, Ghana, from the 20th century to the present –George Osei and Shobana Shankar
15. The city as field hospital and the influenza epidemic in Seattle, USA, 1918–19 – Louisa Iarocci
16. Rural migrants, smallpox, and civic surgery in 20th-century Baghdad, Iraq –Huma Gupta
17. House, social Life, and smallpox in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1963 – Susan Heydon
18. Meningitis, shared environments, and inequality in São Paulo, Brazil, 1971–75 – Daniela Sandler
PART 3: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE: PERMANENCE AND CHANGE
19. Epidemics and the royal control of public health in Lisbon, Portugal, 1480–95 – Danielle Abdon
20. The Guadalquivir River and plague in Seville, Spain, in the 16th century –Kristy Wilson Bowers
21. Social inequity and hospital infrastructure in the City of Puebla, Mexico, 1737 –Juan Luis Burke
22. Colonial infrastructure, ecology, and epidemics in Dhaka, 1858–1947 –Mohammad Hossain
23. South American health conventions, social stratification, and the Ilha Grande Lazaretto in Brazil, 1886 –Niuxa Dias Drago, Ana Paula Polizzo, and Fernando Delgado
24. Plague, displacement, and ecological disruption in Bombay, India, 1896 – Emily Webster
25. French urbanism, Vietnamese resistance, and the plague in Hanoi, Vietnam, 1885–1910 –Michael Vann
26. Building a community on Leprosy Island in the Philippines, 1898–1941 – Mary Anne Alabanza Akers
27. Shifting health paradigms and infrastructure in Australia in the 20th century – Karen Daws and Julie Willis
PART 4: URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING: INTERVENTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
28. Urban design, social epidemiology, and the bubonic plague of Palermo, Italy, 1575–76 –Carlo Trombino
29. Cholera and housing reform in Victorian London, England, 1850–1900 –Irina Davidovici
30. Public health, urban development, and cholera in Tokyo, Japan, 1877–95 –Susan L. Burns
31. The Hong Kong plague and public parks in the British settlements of Shanghai and Tianjin, China, 1894 –Yichi Zhang
32. Rebuilding the British Seamen’s Hospital at Smyrna in the wake of smallpox and cholera epidemics, 1892 – Işılay Tiarnagh Sheridan Gün and Erdem Erten
33. Spatial change and the cholera epidemic in Manila, the Philippines, 1902–4 – Ian Morley
34. Plague, housing, and battles over segregation in colonial Dakar, Senegal, 1914 –Gregory Valdespino
35. Urban transformation and public health policies in post-influenza Lagos, Nigeria, 1918 –Timothy Oluseyi Odeyale
36. Urban landscape transformations and the malaria control scheme in Mauritius, 1948–51 – Nicole de Lalouvière
Epilogue: Post-COVID urbanism and architecture –Richard J. Jackson
Glossary
Bibliography
Authors’ biographies
Index