Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris

by Sun-Young Park

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"