
- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Endorsement Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- About the Authors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Wellness Definitions and Overview
- 2 Wellness Architecture and Urban Design Benefits
- 3 Wellness Urban Design Strategies
- 4 Wellness Architecture Strategies
- 5 Wellness Interior Strategies
- 6 Wellness Landscape Strategies
- 7 Case Study 1 – Mado Neighborhood
- 8 Case Study 2 – Fivelements Retreat Bali
- Summary
- Suggested Reading
- Index