Multimedia | film profile
Trash Dance
In Trash Dance, choreographer Allison Orr tries to persuade employees of the Austin Department of Solid Waste to participate in a public dance performance.
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Multimedia | journal article
"Healthy Country, Unhealthy City: Population Growth, Migration, and Urban Sanitation in Lima and Manila"
This article explores the connection between the significant health improvements made in the developing world, particularly after World War II, and the goal of providing clean water and sanitation services to large urban centers in these countries.
Multimedia | journal article
"Sanitation, Water and Health"
This article discusses how the understanding of the key concepts and the links between health, water, and sanitation has changed over time.
Arcadia
Marshlands, Sanitation Policies, and Epidemic Fevers in Late-Eighteenth-Century Barcelona (1783–1786)
A tertian fever epidemic occurred in Barcelona from 1783 to 1786 and affected approximately one million people.
Arcadia
Treating the “Undesirable”: Venereal Patients in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918
This paper explores how conceptions of Canada as a naturally healthy environment proved false when the ill-health of civilians was revealed during the First World War.
Arcadia
The Overrated Effect of Cholera and Typhoid Fever on Sanitary Reform: The Case of Linz
Cholera and typhoid fever did play a role in sanitary reform in Linz/Donau, but cannot be interpreted as the trigger of these reforms.
Arcadia
To Dig a Well (in Siberia)
In 1947, inhabitants of Yakutsk gained access to potable groundwater from below the permafrost layer for the first time.
Exhibition chapter
Munich from Below | Ecopolis München
Munich from Below: What Happens Underground?
Perspectives Article
Green City Promises and "Just Sustainabilities"
Vanesa Castán Broto critiques sustainable development agendas that approach green cities as merely engines of economic growth.
Multimedia | journal article
"Breathing Air with Heft: An Experiential Report on Environmental Law and Public Health in China"
This article explores the intersections of daily life and environmental law in modern China. With comparative perspectives on analogous challenges in the United States, it reports on these critical domestic challenges for China at a pivotal moment in its reemergence as a dominant world power.