Wellness Architecture and Urban Design
eBook - ePub

Wellness Architecture and Urban Design

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Wellness Architecture and Urban Design

About this book

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices. Wellness Architecture and Urban Design presents definitions, an analysis of the wellness literature, and a brief history of the wellness movement. Specific planning and design strategies are presented citing examples worldwide and emphasizing the importance of wellness considerations at all scales of the built environment from rooms to cities. Both case studies offer fully integrated and comprehensive wellness design approaches creating resilient and life-enhancing wellness through each of the architecture and urban design scales. The book will be of interest to practitioners and students working in urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, planning, and affiliated fields.

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Yes, you can access Wellness Architecture and Urban Design by Phillip James Tabb,Lahra Tatriele in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Architecture & Architecture General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032752037
eBook ISBN
9781040106839

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Endorsement Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Tables
  10. Foreword
  11. About the Authors
  12. Preface
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. 1 Wellness Definitions and Overview
  15. 2 Wellness Architecture and Urban Design Benefits
  16. 3 Wellness Urban Design Strategies
  17. 4 Wellness Architecture Strategies
  18. 5 Wellness Interior Strategies
  19. 6 Wellness Landscape Strategies
  20. 7 Case Study 1 – Mado Neighborhood
  21. 8 Case Study 2 – Fivelements Retreat Bali
  22. Summary
  23. Suggested Reading
  24. Index