Preface - Mohammad Gharipour and Caitlin DeClercq Prologue: Pandemics and urban health - Sandro Galea PART 1: URBAN GOVERNANCE: POLITICS AND MANAGEMENT 1. Plague in Sibiu and the first quarantine plan in Central Europe, 1510 - Katalin Szende and Otto Gecser 2. Mughal governance, mobility, and responses to the plague in Agra, India, 1618-19 - Mehreen Chida-Razvi 3. Urban governance, economic intervention, and the plague in Bristol, England, 1665-66 - Andrew Wells 4. Smallpox and the specter of Mexican citizenship, 1826 - Farren Yero 5. Complacency, confusion, and the mismanagement of cholera in York, England, 1832 - Ann-Marie Akehurst 6. Cholera, the Roman aqueduct, and urban renewal in Naples, Italy, 1860-1914 - Sofia Greaves 7. The contested governance of border railways and the plague of Northeast China, 1910-11 - Yongming Chen and Yishen Chen 8. Print, politics, and the smallpox epidemic in Terre Haute, USA, 1902-3 - Allen Shotwell 9. Colonialism, racism, and the government response to bubonic plague in Nairobi, Kenya, 1895-1910 - Catherine Odari PART 2: URBAN LIFE: CULTURE AND SOCIETY 10. Women, social solidarities, and the plague in 17th-century Newcastle, England - Rachel Clamp 11. The Jewish ghetto as a space of quarantine in Prague, 1713 - Joshua Teplitsky 12. Hygiene and urban life in the 'District of Death' in 19th-century Istanbul - Fezanur Karaagaclioglu 13. Religious rituals and cholera in the shrine cities of 19th-century Iran - Fuchsia Hart 14. Social life, illness, and the marketplace in Kumasi, Ghana, from the 20th century to the present - George Osei and Shobana Shankar 15. The city as field hospital and the influenza epidemic in Seattle, USA, 1918-19 - Louisa Iarocci 16. Rural migrants, smallpox, and civic surgery in 20th-century Baghdad, Iraq - Huma Gupta 17. House, social Life, and smallpox in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1963 - Susan Heydon 18. Meningitis, shared environments, and inequality in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1971-75 - Daniela Sandler PART 3: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE: PERMANENCE AND CHANGE 19. Epidemics and the royal control of public health in Lisbon, Portugal, 1480-95 - Danielle Abdon 20. The Guadalquivir River and plague in Seville, Spain, in the 16th century - Kristy Wilson Bowers 21. Social inequity and hospital infrastructure in the City of Puebla, Mexico, 1737 - Juan Luis Burke 22. Colonial infrastructure, ecology, and epidemics in Dhaka, 1858-1947 - Mohammad Hossain 23. South American health conventions, social stratification, and the Ilha Grande Lazaretto in Brazil, 1886 - Niuxa Dias Drago, Ana Paula Polizzo, and Fernando Delgado 24. Plague, displacement, and ecological disruption in Bombay, India, 1896 - Emily Webster 25. French urbanism, Vietnamese resistance, and the plague in Hanoi, Vietnam, 1885-1910 - Michael Vann 26. Building a community on Leprosy Island in the Philippines, 1898-1941 - Mary Anne Alabanza Akers 27. Shifting health paradigms and infrastructure in Australia in the 20th century - Karen Daws and Julie Willis PART 4: URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING: INTERVENTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 28. Urban design, social epidemiology, and the bubonic plague of Palermo, Italy, 1575-76 - Carlo Trombino 29. Cholera and housing reform in Victorian London, England, 1850-1900 - Irina Davidovici 30. Public health, urban development, and cholera in Tokyo, Japan, 1877-95 - Susan L. Burns 31. The Hong Kong plague and public parks in the British settlements of Shanghai and Tianjin, China, 1894 - Yichi Zhang 32. Rebuilding the British Seamen's Hospital at Smyrna in the wake of smallpox and cholera epidemics, 1892 - Isilay Tiarnagh Sheridan Gun and Erdem Erten 33. Spatial change and the cholera epidemic in Manila, the Philippines, 1902-4 - Ian Morley 34. Plague, housing, and battles over segregation in colonial Dakar, Senegal, 1914 - Gregory Valdespino 35. Urban transformation and public health policies
