Jones, Karen R (2022) Green Lungs and Green Liberty: The Modern City Park and Public Health in an Urban Metabolic Landscape. Social History of Medicine, 35 (4). pp. 1200-1222. ISSN 0951-631X. E-ISSN 1477-4666. (doi:10.1093/shm/hkac055) (KAR id:96742)
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Abstract
This paper explores processes of urban park creation from the mid-1800s to show how ‘green lungs’ and ‘green liberty’ shaped the health geography of the modern city. Tracking this story across a transatlantic canvas (using examples from London, Paris, New York and Montreal), it looks at how ideas around fresh air, exercise and greenery sat within municipal designs for a functional metabolic landscape, what I call somatic urbanism. Plotting the historical contours of the park as a landscape of health has two main uses. Firstly, it usefully connects the worlds of medicine and environment to show how debates about industrialism, modernity, sanitation and social reform found common ground. Secondly, in a contemporary world where ventilation issues have been highlighted by the coronavirus pandemic and municipal authorities grapple with anthropogenic challenges, it argues that historical studies of health and environment assume a vital importance in shaping the future of sustainable cities.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1093/shm/hkac055 |
Additional information: | For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence (where permitted by UKRI, an Open Government Licence or CC BY ND public copyright licence may be used instead) to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising |
Uncontrolled keywords: | park, urban, environment, health, city |
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D History General and Old World D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain D History General and Old World > DC France E History America E History America > E151 United States (General) F History United States, Canada, Latin America F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1001 Canada (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of History |
Funders: | Wellcome Trust (https://ror.org/029chgv08) |
Depositing User: | Karen Jones |
Date Deposited: | 05 Sep 2022 10:05 UTC |
Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2023 11:24 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/96742 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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