The Body and the Building: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris

This dissertation examines the transformation of the French built environment alongside medical discourses of the body in the early 19th century, arguing that emerging theories on health and hygiene comprised a politically charged subtext in the design of spaces where gender and class identities wer...

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Main Author: Park, Sun-Young
Other Authors: Picon, Antoine
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11527
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274336