Philosophies des excréments: réutilisation des effluents en Allemagne à la fin du 19e et du 20e siècle
- Submitting institution
-
The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 13 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
- Output identifier
- 10593
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
-
-
- Book title
- Le sol des villes: Ressource et projet
- Publisher
- Métis Presses
- ISBN
- 9782940563111
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
0
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The increasing densification of the metropolises of the west of the nineteenth century resulted in an increasing separation of cities from the countryside, with wastes not returned to agricultural land as had been the practice. Returning human waste to the land was problematic, with strong cultural and philosophical tones, involving class differences. The soil of the agricultural ground of the surrounding metropolitan regions was being depleted, with the mass-movement of populations being a central factor within these developments. This essay considers the problem of human waste in German cities, with London acting as background, before WWII, from a cultural perspective.
