Epidemics, Planning and the City Symposium
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A joint event from Planning Perspectives and the International Planning History Society hosted by the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University
This symposium has grown out of the development of a special issue of Planning Perspectives (issue 37.1), titled ‘Epidemics, Planning and the City’, guest edited by Professor Juliet Davis and published in March 2022. It was initiated at the start of the global Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, a time of speculation on how cities would need to adapt in order to mitigate the risks of this highly transmittable, largely airborne disease. The goal of the special issue was to gather historical research on how cities and planners have confronted epidemics / pandemics in the past, including how they have constructed the challenge of infectious diseases and developed visions, processes and strategies to contain, isolate and treat them. The arising papers showcase many different times, places and cultural contexts, and also a panoply of different epidemics which cities through history have not only had to adjust to but also been changed by.
Schedule:
Start - 13:15 BST (GMT+1)
13:15 - Juliet Davis: Introduction and overview
13:35 - Julie Collins, Peter Lekkas: Consumption crusade: the influence of tuberculosis on the emergence of town planning in South Australia, 1890–1918
13:55 - Jacopo Galli - Hypochondria as a form factor. The role of colonial anxieties as shapers of buildings and urban spaces in British Africa
14:15 - Samantha Martin - The pathogenic city: disease, dirt and the planning of Dublin’s Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Markets
14:35 – 5 min break
14:40 - Antonio Carbone - Epidemics, the issue of control and the grid: a nineteenth-century perspective from Buenos Aires
15:00 - Mrunmayee Satam - Influenza pandemic and the development of public health infrastructure in Bombay city, 1919–1935
15:20 - Noel Manzano - The cleanliness of otherness: epidemics, informal urbanization and urban degeneration in early twentieth-century Madrid
15:40 - Giorgio Talocci, Donald Brown, Haim Yacobi - The biogeopolitics of cities: a critical enquiry across Jerusalem, Phnom Penh, Toronto
16:00 - Discussion on common themes and overlaps in the papers
16:30 - End
About the contributors
Dr. Donald Brown is a Lecturer in Urban Environmental Planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London
Dr. Antonio Carbone is a Post-Doc in Modern History at the German Historical Institute in Rome.
Dr. Julie Collins is Research Fellow and Curator at the Architecture Museum at the University of South Australia.
Prof. Juliet Davis is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Head of the Welsh School of Architecture, a member of the Council of the International Planning History Society and a member of the Editorial Board of Planning Perspectives.
Dr. Jacopo Galli is a Research Associate at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
Dr. Peter Lekkas is a social epidemiologist working within the Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Health (CRESH) at the University of Edinburgh as a postdoctoral research fellow.
Dr. Noel Manzano is s an architect (UVA) and sociologist (Paris 8), with a PhD in urban history From Universidad de Valladolid and Bauhaus University of Weimar
Dr. Samantha Martin is an Associate Professor of Architecture at University College Dublin
Dr. Nida Rehman is Lucian and Rita Caste Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Mrunmayee Satam is an Assistant Professor of History at Amity University, Mumbai
Dr. Giorgio Talocci is a Lecturer at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London
Prof. Haim Yacobi is a Professor in Development Planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London