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Chapter 1: Salutogenic Urbanism: Early Modern European Cities in Pursuit of Public Health -- Part I Dynamics of Isolation -- Chapter 2: Health, Architecture, and Urban Identity: The Hospital Real de Todos-os-Santos in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon -- Chapter 3: Architecture and Plague Prevention: The Development of Lazzaretti in Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean Cities -- Part II Salutogenic Infrastructure -- Chapter 4: Architecture and Infrastructure: The Salutogenetic Plan for Karlsruhe -- Chapter 5: "Private Vices, Public Benefits": Self-interest and Salutogenesis in Early Modern York -- Part III Spaces of Madness -- Chapter 6: Madness in the Early Modern City: Florence and the Public Health Nexus (1642–1788) -- Chapter 7: Rationalization of Space, Rationalization of Madness: Louis-Hippolyte Lebas and the Development of Psychiatric Hospitals in Nineteenth-Century France -- Part IV Spa cities -- Chapter 8: Cure, Leisure, and Exercise: The Emerging Spa Landscapes in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Hungary -- Chapter 9: Promoting Health through Urban Planning: Spa Towns and Urban Development in Nineteenth-Century Greece.

Preface -- Prologue: Pandemics and Urban Health -- Part 1 Urban Governance: Politics and Management -- 1 Plague in Sibiu and the First Quarantine Plan in Central Europe, 1510 -- Case study: Plague in Sibiu, 1510 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Mughal Governance, Mobility, and Responses to the Plague in Agra, India, 1618-19 -- Case study: Plague in Agra, 1618-19 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Urban Governance, Economic Intervention, and the Plague in Bristol, England, 1665-66 -- Case study: Bubonic plague in Bristol, 1665-66 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Smallpox and the Specter of Mexican Citizenship, 1826 -- Case study: "A thing they call witchcraft": Vaccination in 1826 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Complacency, Confusion, and the Mismanagement of Cholera in York, England, 1832 -- Case study: Cholera in York, 1832 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Cholera, the Roman Aqueduct, and Urban Renewal in Naples, Italy, 1860-1914 -- Case study: The Neapolitan aqueduct -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 The Contested Governance of Border Railways and the Plague of Northeast China, 1910-11 -- Case study: The railway and response to the plague in 1910-11 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Print, Politics, and the Smallpox Epidemic in Terre Haute, USA, 1902-3 -- Case study: Politics and controversies of quarantine and vaccination -- Conclusion -- 9 Colonialism, Racism, and the Government Response to Bubonic Plague in Nairobi, Kenya, 1895-1910 -- Case study: Government intervention and bubonic plague in Nairobi, 1902-6 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part 2 Urban Life: Culture and Society -- 10 Women, Social Solidarities, and the Plague in 17th-Century Newcastle, England -- Case study: Women health care workers in Newcastle, 1570-1637 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 The Jewish Ghetto as a Space of Quarantine in Prague, 1713 -- Case study: Quarantine and cultural responses to the plague in Prague, 1713 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 12 Hygiene and Urban Life in the "District of Death" in 19th-Century Istanbul -- Case study: Plague visibility in Galata-Pera -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 13 Religious Rituals and Cholera in the Shrine Cities of 19th-Century Iran -- Case study: Cholera in 19th-century Qom and Mashhad -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 14 Social Life, Illness, and the Marketplace in Kumasi, Ghana, from the 20th Century to the Present -- Case study: Kumasi's markets in public life and public health since 1900 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 15 The City as Field Hospital and the Influenza Epidemic in Seattle, USA, 1918-19 -- Case study: Prevention, isolation and treatment of disease in Seattle, 1918 -- Conclusion -- 16 Rural Migrants, Smallpox, and Civic Surgery in 20th-Century Baghdad, Iraq -- Case study: Civic surgery and the campaign to eradicate smallpox -- Conclusion -- Notes.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Part I: Settings of Social Housing: Politics, Agency, and Social Reform; 2. Legitimizing the Jordanian State through Social Housing; 3. Workers' and Popular Housing in Mid-Twentieth-Century Egypt; 4. Neoliberal Islamism and the Cultural Politics of Housing in Turkey; Part II: Histories of Social Housing: Identity, Nation, and Beyond; 5. Constructing Dignity: Primitivist Discourses and the Spatial Economies of Development in Postcolonial Tunisia; 6. Nation-Building in Israel: Negotiations over Housing as Grounds for the State-Citizen Contract, 1948-53; 7. Social Housing in Colonial Cyprus: Contestations on Urbanity and Domesticity8. Constructed Marginality: Women, Public Housing, and National Identity in Kuwait; Part III: Design and Construction: Transnational Systems and Localized Practices; 9. Rabbis, Architects, and the Design of Ultra-Orthodox City-Settlements; 10. Notions of Class and Culture in Housing Projects in Tehran, 1945-60; 11. Discrepant Spatial Practices: Contemporary Social Housing Projects in İzmir; Index

1. Mobile urbanism : tent cities in medieval travel writing / Mohammad Gharipour and Manu P. Sobti -- 2. Understanding the city through travellers' tales : Cairo as seen and experienced by two fourteenth-century Italians / Felicity Ratte -- 3. Where is the "greatest city in the East"? The Mughal city of Lahore in European travel accounts (1556-1648) / Mehreen Chida-Razvi -- 4. The image of the city : public baths and urban space in Western travellers' descriptions of Ottoman Sofia / Stefan Peychev -- 5. Cultural encounters between Europeans and Arabs : Carsten Niebuhr's reflections on cities of the Islamic world (1761-67) / Jørgen Mikkelsen -- 6. Western eyes on Jannina : foreign narratives of a city recorded in texts and images (1788-1822) / Renia Paxinou -- 7. Single p(a)lace, multiple narratives : the Topkapi Palace in Western travel accounts from the eighteenth to the twentieth century / Nilay Ozlu -- 8. Tensions and interactions : Muslim, Christian and Jewish towns in Palestine through European travellers' accounts (eighteenth-twentieth century) / Valerie Geonet -- 9. In and out of the frame : Finnish painters discovering Tunisia / Marie-Sofie Lundstrom -- 10. "The Orient veneered in the occident" : Naserid Tehran in the eyes of European travellers / M. Reza Shirazi -- 11. No place for a tourist : imagining Fez in the Burton Holmes travelogue / Michelle H. Craig -- 12. A challenge to the West : British views of republican Ankara / Davide Deriu.

"Presenting a critical, yet innovative, perspective on the cultural interactions between the 'East' and the 'West, ' this book questions the role of travel in the production of knowledge and in the construction of the idea of the 'Islamic city.' This volume brings together authors from various disciplines, questioning the role of Western travel writing in the production of knowledge about the East, particularly focusing on the cities of the Muslim world. Instead of concentrating on a specific era, chapters span the Medieval and Modern eras in order to present the transformation of both the idea of the 'Islamic city' and also the act of traveling and travel writing. Missions to the East, whether initiated by military, religious, economic, scientific, diplomatic or touristic purposes, resulted in a continuous construction, de-construction and re-construction of the 'self' and the 'other.' Including travel accounts, which depicted cities, extending from Europe to Asia and from Africa to Arabia, chapters epitomize the construction of the 'Orient' via textual or visual representations. By examining various tools of representation such as drawings, paintings, cartography, and photography in depicting the urban landscape in constant flux, the book emphasizes the role of the mobile individual in defining city space and producing urban culture. Scrutinising the role of travellers in producing the image of the world we know today, this book is recommended for researchers, scholars and students of Middle Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies, Architecture and Urbanism"--