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Grant Applications --- Neighborhood --- Olmsted Park System, Boston (Mass.) --- Open Space --- Open spaces --- Parks --- Playgrounds --- Proposals --- Proposed --- Trees --- Boston --- Massachusetts

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Agoraphobia, the fear of open spaces, has received minimal attention from sociologists. Yet implicit within psychiatric discussion of this disease is a normative account of society, social order, social ordering, and power relations, making agoraphobia an excellent candidate for sociological interpretation. Narrating Social Order provides the first critical sociological framework for understanding agoraphobia, as well as the issue of psychiatric classification more generally.Shelley Z. Reuter explores three major themes in her analysis: agoraphobia in the context of gender, race, and class; the shift in recent decades from an emphasis on psychoanalytic explanations for mental diseases to an emphasis on strictly biogenic explanations; and, finally, embodiment as a process that occurs in and through disease categories. Reuter provides a close reading of reports of agoraphobia beginning with the first official cases, along with the DSM and its precursors, illustrating how a ?psychiatric narrative? is contained within this clinical discourse. She argues that, while the disease embodies very real physiological and emotional experiences of suffering, implicit in this fluid and shifting discourse are socio-cultural assumptions. These assumptions, and especially the question of what it means, both medically and culturally, to be ?normal? and ?pathological,? demonstrate the overlap between the psychiatric narrative of agoraphobia and socio-cultural narratives of exclusion. Ultimately, Reuter seeks to confront the gap that exists between sociological and psychiatric conceptions of mental disease and to understand the relationship between biomedical and cultural knowledges.

Agoraphobia. --- Mental illness --- Social psychiatry. --- Agoraphobie. --- Maladies mentales --- Psychiatrie sociale. --- Psychiatry, Social --- Clinical sociology --- Mental health --- Psychiatry --- Social medicine --- Social psychology --- Psychology, Pathological --- Nosology --- Fear of being alone --- Fear of open space --- Fear of open spaces --- Isolation, Fear of --- Open space, Fear of --- Open spaces, Fear of --- Panic disorders --- Phobias --- Spatial behavior --- Classification. --- Agoraphobie --- Psychiatrie sociale --- Classification

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In recent years many countries have built or renovated schools incorporating open plan design. These new spaces are advocated on the basis of claims that they promote fresh, productive ways to teach and learn that address the needs of students in this century, resulting in improved academic and well-being outcomes. These new approaches include teachers planning and teaching in teams, grouping students more flexibly, developing more coherent and comprehensive curricula, personalising student learning experiences, and providing closer teacher-student relationships. In this book we report on a three-year study of six low SES Years 7–10 secondary schools in regional Victoria, Australia, where staff and students adapted to these new settings. In researching this transitional phase, we focused on the practical reasoning of school leaders, teachers and students in adapting organisational, pedagogical, and curricular structures to enable sustainable new learning environments. We report on approaches across the different schools to structural organisation of students in year-level groupings, distributed leadership, teacher and pre-service teacher professional learning, student advocacy and wellbeing, use of techno-mediated learning, personalising student learning experiences, and curriculum design and enactment. We found that these new settings posed significant challenges for teachers and students and that successful adaptation depended on many interconnected factors. We draw out the implications for successful adaptation in other like settings.

Education. --- Open plan schools -- Australia -- Victoria -- Case studies. --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Education - General --- Adult education --- Research. --- Study and teaching. --- Pedagogy --- Adult education research --- Education, general. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Open plan schools. --- Interest centers approach to teaching --- Learning center approach to teaching --- Open classroom approach to teaching --- Open education --- Open schools --- Open-space plan schools --- Free schools --- Individualized instruction --- Experimental methods

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The field of design and health, formerly known as the domain of healthcare design professionals, has now reached a turning point with the proliferation of a plethora of non-invasive wearable technologies, to provide the objective and near-real-time measurement of the impact of many features of the built environment on aspects of health, wellbeing and performance. In turn, new materials and the Internet of Things are allowing the development of smart buildings, which can interact with occupants to optimize their health, wellbeing, performance and overall experience. Companies that have previously focused on positioning themselves as “green” are now turning to positioning themselves in the marketplace as both green and healthy. This Special Issue will include articles that address new cutting edge technologies and materials at the interface between design and health, and review some of the latest findings related to studies which use these technologies. This SI will also suggest exciting future directions for the field. It will include articles which focus on the objective data gathered to document the effects of the built environment on health. Importantly, it will focus on the use of innovative methods of measurement, such as state-of-the-art wearable and environmental sensors, quantifying some aspects of health, such as stress and relaxation responses, activity, posture, sleep quality, cognitive performance and wellbeing outcomes. It will also examine the impacts of different elements of the built environment on these health and wellbeing outcomes. The published articles will focus on the design interventions informed by these measurements, along with innovative integrated building materials that can shape the design of built environments for better health, productivity, and performance. It will also address the return on investment (ROI) of such design interventions. This Special Issue will provide both the foundational knowledge and fundamentals for characterizing human health and wellbeing in the built environment, as well as the emerging trends and design methods for innovations in this field.

Research & information: general --- lifestyle --- mood states --- perceived restorativeness scale --- positive and negative affect schedule --- quality of life --- resilience --- restorative outcome scale --- Shinrin-yoku --- stress coping --- subjective vitality scale --- open spaces 2 --- CKD 3 --- renal function --- exercise --- obesity --- urban environment --- walkability --- active transportation --- college students --- supportive soundscape --- sonic environment --- nursing homes --- ageing --- dementia --- green spaces --- cardiovascular risk factors --- gender --- hypercholesterolemia --- hypertension --- diabetes --- bamboo forest therapy --- psychological responses --- physiological responses --- immune system --- violent crime --- urban parks --- greenspace --- green space --- scoping review --- systematic review --- literature review --- urban --- landscape --- brain --- visual --- green --- contemplative --- mental health --- well-being --- FAA --- EEG --- UGS --- depression --- human health --- built environment --- urban open space --- forest healing --- wellbeing --- psychology --- physiology

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This book focuses on the quantitative assessment of environmental and human health risks which are usually evaluated by the ecological risk assessment which is the process for evaluating how likely it is that the environment might be obstructed as a result of exposure to environmental stressors. This book can deliver novel data on the quantitative assessment framework and provide a theoretical basis for follow-up research on the mitigation measures and control strategies for stakeholders.

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- adsorption --- environmental health --- chromium --- ferric chloride --- traditional Chinese medicine residual --- Cyprinus carpio --- phenanthrene ecotoxicology --- cytochrome P4501A --- 7-ethoxylesorufin O-deethylase --- glutathione S-transferase --- CFD simulation --- ventilation --- pollutant dispersion --- open space --- urban tree planting --- personal intake fraction --- reclaimed water --- health effects --- microbial community dynamics --- diversity and richness --- driven factors --- pathogens --- networks --- composting facility --- airborne fungi --- pathogenic/allergenic genera --- aerosolization behaviour --- factor analysis --- S-nZVI --- sulfidation --- trichloroethylene --- pathway --- groundwater safety --- e-waste --- heavy metal pollution --- children --- soil and dust ingestion rates --- health risk assessment --- algicidal bacteria --- prodigiosin --- quorum sensing molecular --- transcriptome --- arsenite pollution --- health effect --- squamous cell carcinoma --- NRF2/NQO1 pathway --- cell proliferation --- malignant transformation --- trace elements --- heavy metals --- Tuscany (Italy) --- soil contamination --- urban environment --- green space --- obesity --- Latino population --- spatial epidemiology