Contents
Preface Mohammad Gharipour and Caitlin DeClercq xi
Prologue: Pandemics and urban health - Sandro Galea xxi
PART 1: URBAN GOVERNANCE: POLITICS AND MANAGEMENT 2
1. Plague in Sibiu and the first quarantine plan in Central Europe, 1510 - Katalin Szende and Otto Gecser 4
2. Mughal governance, mobility, and responses to the plague in Agra, India, 1618-19 - Mehreen Chida-Razvi 14
3. Urban governance, economic intervention, and the plague in Bristol, England, 1665-66
- Andrew Wells 24
4. Smallpox and the specter of Mexican citizenship, 1826 - Farren Yero 33
5. Complacency, confusion, and the mismanagement of cholera in York, England, 1832 - Ann-Marie Akehurst 43
6. Cholera, the Roman aqueduct, and urban renewal in Naples, Italy, 1860-1914 - Sofia Greaves 53
7. The contested governance of border railways and the plague of Northeast China, 1910-11 - Yongming Chen and Yishen Chen 61
8. Print, politics, and the smallpox epidemic in Terre Haute, USA, 1902-3 - Allen Shotwell 68
9. Colonialism, racism, and the government response to bubonic plague in Nairobi, Kenya, 1895-1910 - Catherine Odari 75
PART 2: URBAN LIFE: CULTURE AND SOCIETY 82
10. Women, social solidarities, and the plague in 17th-century Newcastle, England 84
- Rachel Clamp
11. The Jewish ghetto as a space of quarantine in Prague, 1713 - Joshua Teplitsky 92
12. Hygiene and urban life in the 'District of Death' in 19th-century Istanbul 100
- Fezanur Karaagaclioglu
13. Religious rituals and cholera in the shrine cities of 19th-century Iran - Fuchsia Hart 108
14. Social life, illness, and the marketplace in Kumasi, Ghana, from the 20th century to the present - George Osei and Shobana Shankar 117
15. The city as field hospital and the influenza epidemic in Seattle, USA, 1918-19 125
- Louisa Iarocci
16. Rural migrants, smallpox, and civic surgery in 20th-century Baghdad, Iraq - Huma Gupta 135
17. House, social Life, and smallpox in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1963 - Susan Heydon 143
18. Meningitis, shared environments, and inequality in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1971-75 - Daniela Sandler 151
PART 3: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE: PERMANENCE AND CHANGE 160
19. Epidemics and the royal control of public health in Lisbon, Portugal, 1480-95 162
- Danielle Abdon
20. The Guadalquivir River and plague in Seville, Spain, in the 16th century 171
- Kristy Wilson Bowers
21. Social inequity and hospital infrastructure in the City of Puebla, Mexico, 1737 178
- Juan Luis Burke
22. Colonial infrastructure, ecology, and epidemics in Dhaka, 1858-1947 - Mohammad Hossain 188
23. South American health conventions, social stratification, and the Ilha Grande Lazaretto in Brazil, 1886 - Niuxa Dias Drago, Ana Paula Polizzo, and Fernando Delgado 195
24. Plague, displacement, and ecological disruption in Bombay, India, 1896 - Emily Webster 204
25. French urbanism, Vietnamese resistance, and the plague in Hanoi, Vietnam, 1885-1910 - Michael Vann 213
26. Building a community on Leprosy Island in the Philippines, 1898-1941 - Mary Anne Alabanza Akers 222
27. Shifting health paradigms and infrastructure in Australia in the 20th century - Karen Daws and Julie Willis 230
PART 4: URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING: INTERVENTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 240
28. Urban design, social epidemiology, and the bubonic plague of Palermo, Italy, 1575-76 - Carlo Trombino 242
29. Cholera and housing reform in Victorian London, England, 1850-1900 - Irina Davidovici 251
30. Public health, urban development, and cholera in Tokyo, Japan, 1877-95 - Susan L. Burns 260
31. The Hong Kong plague and public parks in the British settlements of Shanghai and Tianjin, China, 1894 - Yichi Zhang 271
32. Rebuilding the British Seamen's Hospital at Smyrna in the wake of smallpox and cholera epidemics, 1892 - Isilay Tiarnagh Sheridan Gun and Erdem Erten 279
33. Spatial change and the cholera epidemic in Manila, the Philippines, 1902-4 - Ian Morley 289
34. Plague, housing, and battles over segregation in colonial Dakar, Senegal, 1914 - Gregory Valdespino 297
35. Urban transformation and public health policies in post-influenza Lagos, Nigeria, 1918 - Timothy Oluseyi Odeyale 305
36. Urban landscape transformations and the malaria control scheme in Mauritius, 1948-51 - Nicole de Lalouviere 312
Epilogue: Post-COVID urbanism and architecture 324
Richard J. Jackson
Glossary 330
Bibliography 335
Authors' biographies 353
Index 365