The Risk of Cholera and The Reform of Urban Space
Philadelphia, 1893
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 4491137 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Michael B Kahan (Stanford University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2013 |
| Volumen | 103 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 517-536 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2013.00018.x |
| OpenAlex | W2029956222 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 27 |
The fear of a cholera outbreak in Philadelphia in 1893 led to intense debate over how to manage the risk of an epidemic. Philadelphians largely agreed that the risk was spatial in nature, and that coping with the danger of cholera meant addressing the problem of the city's southeastern “slums.” But the meaning of this space was contested. Some reformers viewed it as a den of immorality, while others saw it as a site of injustice. The city government ignored both views, instead undertaking a technical reform by repaving the neighborhood's streets with asphalt. The episode demonstrates how competing understandings of risk and urban space yielded competing prescriptions for urban reform, and why technical reform came to be preferred over moral or economic reconstruction in the Progressive Era. Contrary to previous interpretations, Progressive reformers cannot be understood as simply “confident” or “anxious,” but as prioritizing certain risks while ignoring others
Cholera · Criminology · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Immorality · Injustice · Meaning (existential · Morality · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · American History and Culture · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Psychology
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| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |