Main entry:

Park, Sun-Young (Assistant professor), author.

Title & Author:

Ideals of the body : architecture, urbanism, and hygiene in postrevolutionary Paris / Sun-Young Park.

Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
©2018.

Description:

xi, 372 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color0 ; 27 cm

Series:

Culture, politics, and the built environment

Notes:
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - Harvard University, 2014) issued under title: The body and the building : architecture, urbanism, and hygiene in early nineteenth-century Paris.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-363) and index.
1. The Soldier: Regenerating Nation and Masculinity in the Military Gymnasium -- 2. The Schoolboy: Forming Citizens, between the Schoolroom and the Barracks -- Color plates follow -- 3. The Demoiselle: Reconstructing Gender in the Educational Space -- 4. The Lionne: Pursuing Health and Pleasure in Leisure Gardens -- 5. The Sportsman: Shaping Bourgeois Bodies in Urban Recreational Grounds -- Epilogue. rereading the Capital of Modernity.

Summary:

Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet these well-known developments in public health built on a previous moment of anxiety about the hygiene of modern city dwellers. Amid fears of national decline that accompanied the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire, efforts to modernize Paris between 1800 and 1850 focused not on grand and comprehensive structural reforms, but rather on improving the bodily and mental fitness of the individual citizen. These forgotten efforts to renew and reform the physical and moral health of the urban subject found expression in the built environment of the city--in the gymnasiums, swimming pools, and green spaces of private and public institutions, from the pedagogical to the recreational. Sun-Young Park reveals how these anxieties about health and social order, which manifested in emerging ideals of the body, created a uniquely spatial and urban experience of modernity in the postrevolutionary capital, one profoundly impacted by hygiene, mobility, productivity, leisure, spectacle, and technology.

ISBN:

9780822945284
0822945282

Subject:

Architecture and society France Paris 19th century.
Public spaces France Paris History 19th century.
Hygiene France Paris History 19th century.
Architecture et société France Paris 19e siècle.
Espaces publics France Paris Histoire 19e siècle.
Hygiène France Paris Histoire 19e siècle.
44.01 history of medicine.
74.73 urban and rural renewal.
Architecture and society
Hygiene
Public spaces
France Paris

Form/genre:

Theses.
History

Added entries:

Culture, politics, and the built environment.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304029
Call No.: BIB 249533
Status: Available