Presentation:
Ágnes Németh
Budapest City Archives and ELTE Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest)
Moderation:
Martin Schmid
Zentrum für Umweltgeschichte, Institut für Soziale Ökologie, BOKU University
The environmental history of the Hungarian capital Budapest has seen significant events in the second half of the 19th century, which still have an impact today. Population growth, urbanization, and industrialization increased the environmental problems of the city, particularly in relation to housing and public health. The solution to these problems was seen primarily in infrastructure development, influenced by the sanitary movement. Construction of water pipes and waterworks, a new sewerage network, the regulation of the urban stretch of the Danube and of its various small tributaries were all part of the urban planning process which began in the 1860s.
In this presentation, I seek to answer the questions: How did sanitation efforts transform Budapest by the end of the 1800s? How did this fit in with international trends of the era?
Ágnes Németh is an archivist and historian at the Budapest City Archives and a PhD student at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest). Her main research topic is environmental history, her dissertation topic is a case study on the sewerage of Budapest in the context of the urban environment, supervised by András Vadas (ELTE). Since 2022, she is also a member of the research group Budapest - The Environmental History of an Urban Area as a research assistant at ELTE.
If you are unable to attend the minisymposium in person, it is also possible to follow the event via zoom. Please contact umweltgeschichte(at)boku.ac.at to get the zoom link.
