Fidel Meraz Fidel.Meraz@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society
Meraz, Fidel; Rice, Louis; Jones, Matthew
Authors
Louis Rice Louis.Rice@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Architecture
Matthew Jones
Contributors
Fidel Meraz Fidel.Meraz@uwe.ac.uk
Editor
Louis Rice Louis.Rice@uwe.ac.uk
Editor
Matthew Jones Matthew.Jones3@bcu.ac.uk
Editor
Abstract
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.
Reflecting 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. Drawing together practicing architects, academics, scholars, public health professional and activists from around the world to provide perspectives on design for health, this book includes emerging research on: healthy homes, walkable cities, design for ageing, dementia and the built environment, health equality and urban poverty, community health services, neighbourhood support and wellbeing, urban sanitation and communicable disease, the role of transport infrastructures and government policy, and the cost implications of ‘unhealthy’ cities etc. To that end, this book examines alternative and radical ways of practicing architecture and the re-imagining of the profession of architecture through a lens of human health.
Citation
Meraz, F., Rice, L., & Jones, M. (2019). F. Meraz, L. Rice, & M. Jones (Eds.), Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society. Delaware, United States: Vernon Press
Book Type | Authored Book |
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Publication Date | Dec 1, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Apr 25, 2019 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Series Title | The Interdisciplinary Built Environment |
ISBN | 9781622735129 |
Keywords | architecture, urban design, public health, participatory design, wellbeing |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/845577 |
Publisher URL | https://vernonpress.com/book/561 |
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