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Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London
Ohio University Press, 2008 Cloth: 978-0-8214-1770-6 | eISBN: 978-0-8214-4253-1 | Paper: 978-0-8214-1771-3 Library of Congress Classification RA488.L8A45 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 362.109421
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian Londonexplores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove toclean up an increasingly filthy city but the resistance to their efforts.Beginning in the 1830s, reform-minded citizens, under the banner of sanitaryimprovement, plunged into London’s dark and dirty spaces and returned withthe material they needed to promote public health legislation and magnificentprojects of sanitary engineering. Sanitary reform, however, was not alwaysmet with unqualified enthusiasm. While some improvements, such as slumclearances, the development of sewerage, and the embankment of the Thames,may have made London a cleaner place to live, these projects also destroyedand reshaped the built environment, and in doing so, altered the meanings andexperiences of the city. See other books on: City | Disease & Health Issues | history | London | Public Health See other titles from Ohio University Press |
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