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Frederick Law Olmsted’s Campaign for Public Health

Olmsted, then living in New York City and working as managing editor of Putnam’s Monthly, was well aware of this transformation in our understanding of ill health. He traversed daily the packed streets and passed by the crowded tenements of Lower Manhattan on his way to and from his office. He saw the effects of … See more

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End Stages: The Future of Hospice Design

WebHospice — as both space and practice — is thus reactionary by nature. It explicitly negates the institutional paradigm. As Stephen Verderber and …

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Demedicalize Architecture

WebDemedicalize Architecture. Giovanna Borasi & Mirko Zardini. March 2012. Kayt Brumder, Breathing Room, thesis project at The Cooper Union, New York, 2009. [© Kayt Brumder; …

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Urban Auscultation

WebRed Hook, Brooklyn, April 2020. [ Steven Pisano] For months, the Covid-19 virus has passed from body to body around the world. Its corporeal work is silent, but it reshapes the soundscape wherever it goes. 1 Coughs and …

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Fountain Society

WebPart of the series Source to Spout: The Water Fountain Project, by Adrian Sas, which was on exhibition in Riverside Park, New York City, June – November 2021.[Courtesy Adrian Sas] Yet that very same public health …

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Compassion in Architecture: Evidence-Based Design for Health in

WebDownload this article as a PDF This article was originally published in a print issue of Places Journal: Volume 18, Issue 3. The entire print archive (1983–2009) is available in PDF …

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Sara Jensen Carr Places Journal

WebSara Jensen Carr is an assistant professor of architecture and program director for the Master of Design in Sustainable Urban Environments at Northeastern University, where …

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Designed-In Safety

WebKira judged that concerns over health and safety were most likely to spur consumers into action. Consequently, in the revised edition, he was more explicit about the dangers of bathrooms, citing the U.S. Department of …

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Active Exclusion

WebWhen it opened, in 1939, Goldwater Memorial — named for Dr. S. S. Goldwater, a champion of public health 17 — quickly became a pioneer in the research and practice of rehabilitative medicine. The 1,500-bed …

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Databodies in Codespace

WebThe National Institutes of Health is building All of Us, a research cohort of one million volunteers with “the statistical power to detect associations between environment and/or biological exposures and a wide variety of …

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Botanic Gardens and Quinine: To Cure or Colonize

WebThe difference depends largely on who exactly is meant to be served by a garden or a plant — and this history is, in turn, entwined with histories of colonialism. Through the …

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The Resounding Success of the Big Dig Places Journal

WebThe Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway supports the health of city residents, eases congestion, enhances housing and commercial opportunities, and will increase social …

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WebPolicy and Health Inequalities: A Health Impact Assessment of Edinburgh’s Trans-port Policy,” Public Health 117 (2003), pp. 15-24. 10. Transportation and Health Study Group …

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How Haiti Could Change Design

WebA public health version of architecture could do the same, identifying those places most in need of immediate attention, where intervention now would prevent the greatest expense …

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Post-Castro-Cuba Places Journal

WebLikewise, the Cuban health care system has performed admirably in the face of COVID-19. Cuba has the highest ratio of doctors per capita in the world (more than three times that …

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Chicago Inside Out

WebThis is the figure for the 2018 Cook County Budget. About 80 percent goes to public health and the judicial system (both civil and criminal). By comparison, Chicago’s 2018 budget …

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Scenographic Urbanism: Paul Rudolph

WebThe Community Mental Health Act of 1963, which reflected revolutionary changes in the care of the mentally ill, made it possible to release patients from full-time residency in …

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Flush with Inequality

WebFrankfort Resettlement Camp with lavatories. Ciskei. 12 July 1983. [by David Goldblatt]. Goldblatt’s photographs serve as a relevant point of departure for this reflection on things …

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CicLAvia: Reimagining the Streets of Los Angeles

Web3 Instead, the all-volunteer group framed CicLAvia as a program that could contribute to ameliorating multiple urban dilemmas — to improving public health, increasing and …

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