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24%OFFHilary Sample - Questions Concerning Health: Stress and Wellness in Johannesburg - 9781883584924 - V9781883584924
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Questions Concerning Health: Stress and Wellness in Johannesburg

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Description for Questions Concerning Health: Stress and Wellness in Johannesburg Paperback. Editor(s): Sample, Hilary. Num Pages: 260 pages, color illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; AMVD; MBN; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 518.
At a moment when the world's population increasingly lives in urban settings, the public health of cities-or the intersection of stress and wellness with architecture and urbanism-is a matter of pressing concern for designers. Questions Concerning Health reports on this critical terrain, focusing particularly on Johannesburg, South Africa (a notable test case in which the term social equivalency, used by epidemiologists, also carries considerable historical and spatial resonance). Among the book's research findings is that health is an intensively local phenomenon that demands intensively local responses in the form of more sensitive architectural typologies as well as urban ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia GSAPP Books on Architecture
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
517 g
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781883584924
SKU
V9781883584924
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About Hilary Sample
Hilary Sample is associate professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and a principal with MOS Architects. Her ongoing research focuses on health in urban environments around the world.

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