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Cleansing the city : sanitary geographies in Victorian London by Michelle Elizabeth Allen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London explores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove to clean up an increasingly filthy city but the resistance to their efforts. Beginning in the 1830s, reform-minded citizens, under the banner of sanitary improvement, plunged into London’s dark and dirty spaces and returned with the material they needed to promote public health legislation and magnificent projects of sanitary engineering. Sanitary reform, however, was not always met with unqualified enthusiasm. While some improvements, such as slum clearances, the development of sewerage, and the embankment of the Thames, may have made London a cleaner place to live, these projects also destroyed and reshaped the built environment, and in doing so, altered the meanings and experiences of the city.

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Author

Michelle Elizabeth Allen

Publisher

Ohio University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780821417713

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, History, European History

Updated

2026-03-24