Survival of the city
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The Relative Success of Regimes in Combating Infectious Diseases
Historically, some regimes have been more successful than others in tackling infectious diseases. The book highlights the nineteenth century fight against plagues of that era and disraeli is really part of that. City governments started investing in clean water, start investing in aqueducts and sewers. But governments became agents of life, rather than agents of death. And its remarkable moment in human history when cities focused on trying to solve basic engineering problems in a pragmatic way.
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