Healthy Cities and Bodies: Reflections on New Paradigms of Urban Wellbeing

Baptist, Vincent

Vincent Baptist

Vincent Baptist is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has a background in urban history, digital humanities and media studies. His research currently focuses on post- industrialization, urban paradoxes and intimacies. He is affiliated to the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus research program ‘PortCityFutures’, and his doctoral research was part of the European HERA project ‘Pleasurescapes: Port Cities’ Transnational Forces of Integration’. His research has been published in Journal of Urban History, Urban Planning, European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, Mediapolis and Arts & Cultural Studies Review, among others.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 8June 9, 2023<June 9, 2023

Healthy Cities and Bodies: Reflections on New Paradigms of Urban Wellbeing

Vincent Baptist

Drawing on examples from Amsterdam to Venice, Vincent Baptist analyses two emerging urban paradigms — the “smooth city” and the “wellness city” — as models for understanding the reciprocal relations of care between cities and their inhabitants.