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The topography of wellness : how health and disease shaped the American landscape
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ISBN: 9780813946290 9780813946306 9780813946313 0813946301 0813946298 081394631X Year: 2021 Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,

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"The COVID-19 pandemic has re-ignited discussions of how architects, landscapes, and urban planners can shape the environment in response to disease. This challenge is both a timely topic and one with an illuminating history. In The Topography of Wellness, Sara Jensen Carr offers a chronological narrative of how six epidemics transformed the American urban landscape, reflecting changing views of the power of design, pathology of disease, and the epidemiology of the environment. From the infectious diseases of cholera and tuberculosis, to so-called "social diseases" of idleness and crime, to the more complicated origins of today's chronic diseases, each illness and its associated combat strategies has left its mark on our surroundings. While each solution succeeded in eliminating the disease on some level, sweeping environmental changes often came with significant social and physical consequences. Even more unexpectedly, some adaptations inadvertently incubated future epidemics. From the Industrial Revolution to present day, this book illuminates the constant evolution of our relationship to wellness and the environment by documenting the shifting grounds of illness and the urban landscape."


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Designing for health & wellbeing : home, city, society
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ISBN: 9781622735129 1622735129 1622737318 9781622737314 9781622737314 1622737318 Year: 2019 Publisher: Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press,

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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.


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Les batailles de l'hygiène : villes et environnement : de Pasteur aux trente glorieuses
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ISBN: 9782130617860 2130617867 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris : Presses universitaires de France,

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A travers l'histoire des politiques sanitaires menées dans quarante villes françaises, de la Belle Epoque aux Trente Glorieuses, l'auteur retrace l'histoire de l'amélioration progressive de l'environnement urbain. De l'assainissement de l'eau au traitement des déchets, une ingénierie sanitaire est mise en place et devient un élément central de la gestion municipale.

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