Urban Mobility and a Healthy City: Intertwined Transport and Public Health Policies in American-Colonial Manila

• Main Author: Pante, Michael D.;
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2016
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol64/iss1/4; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4120/viewcontent/6257.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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...