Healthy Environments, Healing Spaces: Practices and Directions in Health, Planning, and Design, Paperback/Timothy Beatley

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This collection of essays by leading scholars and practitioners addresses a timely and essential question: How can we design, plan, and sustain built environments that will foster health and healing? With a salutogenic (health-promoting) focus, Healthy Environments, Healing Spaces addresses a range of contemporary issues, including health equity, biophilic cities, healthcare facility design, environmental health, aging in place, and food systems planning. Contributors: Ellen Bassett Timothy Beatley Emily Chmielewski Jason Corburn Tanya Denckla Cobb Tye Farrow Ann Forsyth Howard Frumkin Judith H. Heerwagen J. David Hoglund Carla Jones Andrew Mondschein Christina Mullen Reuben Rainey Samina Raja Jennifer Whittaker About the Author: Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. Carla Jones is the Program Director of the Center for Design and Health at the University of Virginia. Reuben Rainey is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture.