Nineteenth-Century Medical Landscapes: John H. Rauch, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Search for Salubrity

Szczygiel, Bonj; Hewitt, Robert A.

doi:10.1353/bhm.2000.0197

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“…During the nineteenth century, the ways people thought of the relationship between health and the environment had an impact on urban ecosystems. Szczygiel and Hewitt (2000) argue that the miasmic theory of disease, popular in the mid-nineteenth century, had direct implications for the character of cities. This theory held that the environment was the source of disease.…”

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“…This notion led to the perception that urban spaces, especially unkempt urban spaces, were unhealthy. Sanitary and progressive reform movements considered dense foliage and dampness in cities to be two sources of disease and mounted campaigns to rehabilitate such environments (Melosi 2008; Szczgiel and Hewitt 2000). Late in the nineteenth century, Fredrick Law Olmstead and others sought to redress society's ills by creating healthy environments (Szczgiel and Hewitt 2000) and improving on the aesthetic quality of the landscapes for the good of their communities.…”

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“…Sanitary and progressive reform movements considered dense foliage and dampness in cities to be two sources of disease and mounted campaigns to rehabilitate such environments (Melosi 2008; Szczgiel and Hewitt 2000). Late in the nineteenth century, Fredrick Law Olmstead and others sought to redress society's ills by creating healthy environments (Szczgiel and Hewitt 2000) and improving on the aesthetic quality of the landscapes for the good of their communities. The concern about the health particularly in urban spaces eventually led to the parks movement, which created spaces such as Central Park in New York, the Emerald Necklace in Boston, and Riverside Park in Chicago (Szczgiel and Hewitt 2000).…”

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“…The US parkway movement experimented from the 1860s onwards with systems of interconnected green space to oxygenate the city and dispel its miasmas (Lubove, 1967;Szczygiel and Hewitt, 2000). The 'emerald necklaces' of Olmsted and his followers were radical green-space systems that broke down conventional categories of park, urban and rural (Hirsch and O'Hanlon, 1995).…”

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Re-enclosure of the urban picturesque: Green-space transformations in postmodern urbanism

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The paper seeks to compare and contrast the roles of green space within modern and postmodern urbanism. Modernism rejected enclosure in favour of an open space vision inspired by eighteenth-century picturesque landscape design. Its paradigm of an unbounded public realm was diffused and regularised during the second half of the twentieth century through housing and highways development, open space policies and regulatory practices. As the stock of green space increased, so did concerns about its environmental and social utility. Towards the end of the century there appeared an alternative vision of urban open space. Instead of openness it sought enclosure, and instead of a passive pictorial quality it aimed at the active provision of ecosystem services to the built environment. This article describes this rethinking of town greenery, looks for its underlying social and environmental rationale, and assesses its place within a wider planning theory of postmodern urbanism.Michael Hebbert teaches at the School of Environment and Development, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester, M13 9PL; email: michael.hebbert@manchester.ac.uk.

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“…In the West, research from the mid-1980s has indicated that gardens, parks, and landscape areas have beneficial effects on human health and well-being (Annerstedt & Waehrborg, 2011;Ulrich et al, 1991;Wilson, 1984). More recently, the term "healing garden" has been widely recognized, referring to green outdoor spaces in healthcare facilities that provide a chance of stress relief for patients, staff and families (Gharipour & Zimring, 2005;Lau & Yang, 2009;Szczygiel & Hewitt, 2000). Similarly, in the East a focus on sustainability and recent movement from pharmaceutical remedies to more natural and environmental medicine is an emerging trend, leading into the possibilities of the recuperative rehabilitative possibilities in the landscape (Zhang, Wu, & Xiao, 2009).…”

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Indigenous Cultural Knowledge for Therapeutic Landscape Design

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2019

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The meanings of place and the relationship between place and health have culturally specific dimensions. This is of particular importance for indigenous people and communities as often regarding landscape as part of a circle of life, establishing a holistic perspective about health and wellbeing. The indigenous Māori of Aotearoa/New Zealand contend that their relationship with the land shapes how the cultural, spiritual, emotional, physical, and social wellbeing of people and communities are expressed. Few studies have explored the influence of the cultural beliefs and values on health, in particular the intricate link between land and health. This chapter broadens the understanding of therapeutic landscapes through the exploration of specific cultural dimensions. It contributes to the expanding body of research focusing on the role of therapeutic landscapes and their role in shaping health, through the development of new research methods.

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Nineteenth-Century Medical Landscapes: John H. Rauch, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Search for Salubrity

Cited by 41 publications

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Archaeological Parasites as Indicators of Environmental Change in Urbanizing Landscapes: Implications for Health and Social Status

Archaeological Parasites as Indicators of Environmental Change in Urbanizing Landscapes: Implications for Health and Social Status

Re-enclosure of the urban picturesque: Green-space transformations in postmodern urbanism

Indigenous Cultural Knowledge for Therapeutic Landscape Design

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