Urban mobility and a healthy city interwined transport and public health policies in American-colonial Manila

During the early American-colonial period (1898–1913) mobility and public health became intertwined policy areas. Innovations in transport technology and infrastructure were introduced to “cure” Manila’s unhealthy geography. In 1906 the Municipal Board institutionalized health and mobility as twin c...

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Published in:	Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 64, no. 1 (Mar. 2016), 73-101
Main Author:	Pante, Michael D.
Resource Type:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	Urban transportation Tropical medicine Municipal government Imperialism