Designing for health and wellbeing. Home, city, society
Rapid urbanization represents major threats and challenges to personal and public health. The World Health Organisation identifies the?urban health threat? as three-fold: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases; and violence and injury from, amongst other things, road traffic. Within this tripartite structure of health issues in the built environment, there are multiple individual issues affecting both the developed and the developing worlds and the global north and south.0Reflecting on a broad set of interrelated concerns about health and the design of the places we inhabit, this book seeks to better understand the interconnectedness and potential solutions to the problems associated with health and the built environment. Divided into three key themes: home, city, and society, each section presents a number of research chapters that explore global processes, transformative praxis and emergent trends in architecture, urban design and healthy city research
290 pages
9781622735129, 9781622737901, 1622735129, 1622737903
1119958743