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The health benefits of trees
WEBTo make the case for rethinking the city’s approach to trees, Grubisich and the Texas Trees Foundation turned to data on a larger scale. The organization’s comprehensive urban heat study, released in 2017, showed that one-third of the city was suffering from a phenomenon called urban heat island effect.A full 35 percent of the city was covered by impermeable …
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Placemaking’s power to build healthier, happier communities
WEBThe placemaking strategies outlined in the report seek to positively impact what the World Health Organization calls the “social determinants of health,” the places Americans live, work, and play. More accessible, welcoming, walkable, and engaged neighborhoods can help improve residents’ mental health, physical wellbeing, and social capital.
What is wellness real estate
WEBVilla Valencia is just the latest example of the growing and somewhat nebulous wellness real estate industry. The Miami, Florida-based Global Wellness Institute, an industry trade group, claimed in a much-cited 2018 study that it’s a $134 billion industry, growing at a rate of 6.4 percent globally a year and expected to top $180 billion by 2022.
How a new design process helps communities create their own …
WEBBy putting human-centered design practices at the center of a new way of creating local programs and initiatives, a wide-ranging pilot project wants to change how communities design their own future. An nationwide effort funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that kicked off this past fall, Raising Places is giving six different
Why high rents are a health care problem
WEBWhy high rents are a health care problem. A new survey joins a growing body of research showing that rent-burdened Americans pay for high housing costs with worse health outcomes. A growing body of research finds that housing and healthcare outcomes are interrelated, spurring on new partnerships between developers and healthcare …
Walkable cities are healthier cities, new study affirms
WEBImplicit in the work of all architects and urban designers is the idea that good design can improve human life. And now, a massive global study spanning 14 cities and 10 countries has put that idea to the test and found it true: a well-designed city can help keep people active and reduce rates of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
Coronavirus: Design in the age of pandemics
WEBDesign in the age of pandemics. The Lovell Health House, in Los Angeles, is one of those places that makes you green with envy. Perched on a hillside, the gleaming, all-white modernist house is bathed in sunlight and has floor-to-ceiling windows throughout. There’s a soaking pool, avocado trees in the yard, huge porches, and a roofdeck.
Are millennials driving the construction of ‘wellness
WEBMillennials care about health—even in their buildings. And this growing cohort of aspiring homeowners is fueling a new construction trend for “wellness” buildings, Construction Dive reports. “Wellness” buildings are not only energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable, but they’re also supposed to improve human health and …
How urban planners can promote health and wellness
WEBHealth care challenges are a hot topic in Louisiana’s capital. The United Health Care Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings 2015 report ranked the state in last place in population health, in part due to racial disparities and a high poverty rate. Most troublingly, Louisiana’s rate of residents with Type 2 diabetes ranks among the highest …
Housing and retirement: Inequality a massive challenge for U.S
WEBWhile nearly 90 percent of adults 65 and older collect Social Security, half of recipients depend on the entitlement for half their income. These stats just reinforce the inequality in aging the nation is about to face. In 2016, the median 65-plus homeowner had average net wealth of $319,200. A renter at the same age had net wealth of just $6,700.
Can your city change your mind
WEBDesign, Bentham argued, could be used to achieve specific outcomes. "Morals reformed—health preserved—industry invigorated—instruction diffused—public burthens lightened—Economy seated, as it were, upon a rock—the gordian knot of the Poor-Laws not cut, but untied—all by a simple idea in Architecture!"
Welcome to Disturbia
WEBThe authors included a table of local cases of heart disease broken down by age and income to support their point. The Split-Level Trap draws on copious data from Bergen County, N.J., health records, but it’s not very convincing to a 21st-century reader; chronic stress is always assumed to be the prime cause of illness, whether mental or …
Serenbe and the suburban utopia that worships nature
WEBCourtesy Serenbe. When Steve Nygren talks about how he began Serenbe, a 15-year-old 1,000-acre planned community outside of Atlanta, he speaks about it in humble terms. “I just wanted to save my backyard.”. But his backyard, behind a 1905 farmhouse, wasn’t just any backyard; it was acres of untouched forests, farmland, and …
It’s Time for Architects to Accept Responsibility
WEBArchitecture is about more than buildings. As a field, it plays a key role in the health, safety, and welfare of the public — or at least it should. Craig L. Wilkins — one of the most prolific writers about spatial justice and winner of the National Design Award for his scholarship on Black architects and spaces — believes architects have
Why hospitals want to invest in affordable housing
WEBA group of 14 of the nation’s largest hospital and health systems pledged to invest $700 million over five years on place-based investing in their communities. The investment focuses mostly on affordable housing, but also addresses access to health foods, entrepreneurship among women and minorities, and expanding childcare access.
3 ways architects can improve social equity
WEB3 ways architects can improve social equity. In Philadelphia, the architecture firm ISA looks for ways new housing can address other equity challenges, like public health, access to open space, and emotional well-being. Its Powerhouse project, a 31-unit infill development completed in 2014, includes the “super stoops” and street furniture
How kid-friendly urban design makes cities better for all
WEBCities Alive suggests an agenda that focuses on walkability, safety, and shared urban spaces obviously not only benefits children, but offers widespread societal and economic benefits that can’t be ignored. Pedestrianization of streets can boost foot traffic and commercial activity, adding $9 per square foot to annual rents, according to a
Choked: How air pollution stalks our cities
WEBClear skies don’t necessarily reflect clean air. It’s a key distinction that muddies understanding of air pollution. While air quality in U.S. cities has, through environmental laws and regulations such as the landmark Clean Air Act, become significantly better since the early ’70s, advances in our scientific understanding of the …
Best colors for a more comforting home, according to Pantone
WEBPressman suggests these colors as energizing hues that brighten moods: PANTONE 14-0957 Spectra Yellow; PANTONE 17-3932 Deep Periwinkle; PANTONE 17-1464 Red Orange; PANTONE 20-0147 Diode Blue; PANTONE 18-3027 Purple Orchid; PANTONE 16-4728 Peacock Blue; PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise; PANTONE 12-0642 …
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