Designing to Heal
eBook - ePub

Designing to Heal

Planning and Urban Design Response to Disaster and Conflict

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Designing to Heal

Planning and Urban Design Response to Disaster and Conflict

About this book

Designing to Heal explores what happens to communities that have suffered disasters, either natural or man-made, and what planners and urban designers can do to give the affected communities the best possible chance of recovery. It examines the relationship that people have with their surroundings and the profound disruption to people's lives that can occur when that relationship is violently changed; when the familiar settings for their lives are destroyed and family, friends and neighbours are displaced, incapacitated or killed.

The book offers a model of the healing process, outlining the emotional journey that people go on as they struggle to rebuild their lives. It outlines the characteristics of the built environment that may facilitate people to travel as smoothly as possible down this road to recovery and suggests elements of the design process that can help achieve this goal. Designing to Heal highlights the importance of thinking about urban design as a way of nurturing hope and creating the optimal conditions to achieve social objectives.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Chapter 1 Introduction
  7. Chapter 2 The high cost of living
  8. Chapter 3 Recovering from disaster
  9. Chapter 4 Sixteen acres in Manhattan
  10. Chapter 5 Rebuilding political, social and human capital on Montserrat
  11. Chapter 6 Building bridges out of flags, murals, a prison and a shopping centre in Belfast
  12. Chapter 7 Providing hope for children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  13. Chapter 8 Giving new meaning to a tsunami-devastated beach, Hambantota, Sri Lanka
  14. Chapter 9 Loss and identity, rebuilding communities and buildings after the Victorian bushfires
  15. Chapter 10 Designing to heal
  16. Chapter 11 The characteristics of places that are designed to heal
  17. References
  18. Appendix 1: Interview with Tony McHugh: facilitating the healing process
  19. Appendix 2: Murrindindi Shire memorials guidelines
  20. Index