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"The COVID-19 pandemic has re-ignited discussions of how architects, landscapes, and urban planners can shape the environment in response to disease. This challenge is both a timely topic and one with an illuminating history. In The Topography of Wellness, Sara Jensen Carr offers a chronological narrative of how six epidemics transformed the American urban landscape, reflecting changing views of the power of design, pathology of disease, and the epidemiology of the environment. From the infectious diseases of cholera and tuberculosis, to so-called "social diseases" of idleness and crime, to the more complicated origins of today's chronic diseases, each illness and its associated combat strategies has left its mark on our surroundings. While each solution succeeded in eliminating the disease on some level, sweeping environmental changes often came with significant social and physical consequences. Even more unexpectedly, some adaptations inadvertently incubated future epidemics. From the Industrial Revolution to present day, this book illuminates the constant evolution of our relationship to wellness and the environment by documenting the shifting grounds of illness and the urban landscape."

Sociology of health --- Epidemiology --- Environmental planning --- urban planning --- epidemiology --- United States --- Urban health --- Environmental health --- City planning --- Santé en milieu urbain --- Santé environnementale --- Urbanisme --- Épidémiologie --- History. --- Health aspects --- Histoire --- Urban health - United States - History --- Environmental health - United States - History --- City planning - Health aspects - United States - History --- Epidemiology - United States - History --- United States of America --- Santé en milieu urbain --- Santé environnementale --- Épidémiologie