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Public Health Themes in Survival Through Design: A Son’s …

WEB• Science and Intuition: Bringing designs or public health campaigns into fruition requires both the rational and the intuitive. • Teamwork: Any design or public health campaign involves teams of human beings with characteristic strengths and weaknesses.

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Dotte Agency: A Participatory Design Model for Community Health

WEBDotte Agency: A Participatory Design Model for Community Health. As community activists resist racial injustice, food insecurity, and infrastructural delinquency, many groups are attempting to articulate the voice of the citizen. It is within this landscape that architects have historically struggled to find common ground to afford democratic

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Designing with Dignity: Health and Design Research for …

WEB“Designing with Dignity” is a course that examines how Health and Design research can inform problem-solving for underserved communities. The educational arm of the new Center for Health in the Designed Environment (CHDE) received a foundation grant for a course entitled “Health and Design Research: Designing with Dignity” that was piloted …

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Healthy Inner-City Communities: Toward an Integrative Framework

WEBThis study used a case study methodology reinforced by the relevant literature, participatory action research, interviews, surveys, and evaluations. The outcomes of the project suggest that the integrative framework that we built, which focuses on social capital, could provide an effective way to promote better health in disadvantaged communities.

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New Urban Paradigms: Healthier Futures The Plan Journal

WEB“New Urban Paradigms: Healthier Futures” presents innovative propositions from three Parsons School of Design architectural design studios that address issues of public and environmental health and social justice.

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Design for COVID-19: Rethinking an American Campus and the …

WEBThe university campus has historically been a site of experimentation in the US. Each one aspires to be a small utopia of self-governance, education, and academic freedom, expressed through buildings and open spaces that “reflect not only evolving notions of architectural planning but changing educational and social principles as well.” 11 The …

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Public Health Themes in Survival Through Design: A Son’s …

WEBThe Plan Journal 5 (2): 289-295, 2020 - doi: 10.1524tp.2020.05.02.1 www.theplanournal.com 292 • Science and Intuition: Bringing designs or public health campaigns

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Out of the Crisis by Design The Plan Journal

WEBThe issue is premised by a fitting testimonial by a doctor, an environmental epidemiologist in his own merit, Dr. Raymond Richard Neutra, reflecting on the legacy of his own father Richard Neutra, a pioneer and champion for a health-driven design approach within the framework of modern architecture. The opening contribution is a speculative

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Unconventional Engagement: Reviving the Urban Marketplace

WEBThe decline and displacement of the marketplace in the United States is due in large part to the growth of commercial food production. The shift from local to global food distribution, which occurred with the rise of dependable highways and improved transportation systems after the Second World War, was noted by Monika Roth.

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Imprints of an Invisible Virus: How Airborne Diseases Change Cities

WEBOver the last six months since the outbreak, the United States has seen several conspicuous changes in spatial practice: transparent physical barriers between people to intercept droplets and aerosols; increased natural ventilation indoors; the shutting down of vehicular roads to expand outdoor spaces for dining and socializing; and the emergence …

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A Right to Housing: A Compelling Idea and an Elusive Reality

WEBA report by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University noted: “because of large gaps in homeownership rates, the recent equity gains have doubtless increased the overall disparities in wealth between white households and households of color.” “The State of the Nation’s Housing 2022,” Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, …

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The Right to Housing: A Holistic Perspective. From Concept to …

WEBAs long as fifty years ago, Sharon Segretta Sutton spoke to the dissonance between these two documents. She observed: We need to reorient the 1949 construction industry stance to human well-being and then we can refine that stance to reflect the effects of climate change and racism on people’s ability to secure their needs. 8 Sutton explained that the focus …

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Food Hubs and Rebuilding Missing Middle Market

WEBAs Carolyn Steel posited, “ we have never seen food’s true potential, because it is too big to see. But viewed laterally, it emerges as something with phenomenal power to transform not just landscapes, but political structures, public spaces, social relationships, cities. Its effects depend on those who control it.” 1 By April 2020, tens of millions of Americans suddenly …

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Water-Born Micro-Cities: Bringing the Great Lakes Closer to …

WEB“The causes of and solutions to this recurring crisis are being debated by legislators, agency officials, the environmental community, agricultural sector and others, but one thing is certain: dissolved phosphorus from fertilizer and waste entering the water from agricultural facilities - both crop and livestock - plays a significant role in the growth of the toxic algae.”

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Landscape as a Conceptual Space for Architecture: Shifting …

WEBTypology as a theory seeking autonomous form was ultimately contingent on social needs (program) and historical precedent. Yet what made it appear autonomous was that architecture was preconceived in a “purely conceptual space” where only form and the composition of architectural elements mattered, and that was largely devoided of site …

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Salt as a Building Material: Current Status and Future Opportunities

WEBDifferent studies show that the permeability and porosity of salt are low 66 due to a lack of open spaces within the material. Salt is applied for sensitive heat storage in solar power plants 67 due to its high melting point. 68,69 If small impurities such as anhydrite, gypsum, dolomite, calcite, pyrite, quartz, or iron oxides are present in salt, the bulk density value …

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