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Designing to heal / Jenny Donovan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Collingwood, VIC : CSIRO Publishing, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (viii, 310 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780643106475
  • 0643106472
  • 9780643106482
  • 0643106480
Other title:
  • Subtitle on book cover: Planning and urban design response to disaster and conflict
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Designing to healDDC classification:
  • 720.103 23
LOC classification:
  • NA2543.S6 D66 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- The high cost of living --Recovering from disaster -- Sixteen acres in Manhattan -- Rebuilding political, social and human capital on Montserrat -- Building bridges out of flags, murals, a prison and a shopping centre in Belfast -- Providing hope for children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- Giving new meaning to a tsunami-devastated beach, Hambantota, Sri Lanka -- Loss and identity, rebuilding communities and buildings after the Victorian bushfires -- Designing to heal -- The characteristics of places that are designed to heal.
Summary: "Designing to Heal explores what happens to communities that have suffered disasters, either natural or man-made, and what planners and urban designers can do to give the affected communities the best possible chance of recovery. It examines the relationship that people have with their surroundings and the profound disruption to people's lives that can occur when that relationship is violently changed; when the familiar settings for their lives are destroyed and family, friends and neighbours are displaced, incapacitated or killed. The book offers a model of the healing process, outlining the emotional journey that people go on as they struggle to rebuild their lives. It outlines the characteristics of the built environment that may facilitate people to travel as smoothly as possible down this road to recovery and suggests elements of the design process that can help achieve this goal. Designing to Heal highlights the importance of thinking about urban design as a way of nurturing hope and creating the optimal conditions to achieve social objectives"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The high cost of living --Recovering from disaster -- Sixteen acres in Manhattan -- Rebuilding political, social and human capital on Montserrat -- Building bridges out of flags, murals, a prison and a shopping centre in Belfast -- Providing hope for children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- Giving new meaning to a tsunami-devastated beach, Hambantota, Sri Lanka -- Loss and identity, rebuilding communities and buildings after the Victorian bushfires -- Designing to heal -- The characteristics of places that are designed to heal.

"Designing to Heal explores what happens to communities that have suffered disasters, either natural or man-made, and what planners and urban designers can do to give the affected communities the best possible chance of recovery. It examines the relationship that people have with their surroundings and the profound disruption to people's lives that can occur when that relationship is violently changed; when the familiar settings for their lives are destroyed and family, friends and neighbours are displaced, incapacitated or killed. The book offers a model of the healing process, outlining the emotional journey that people go on as they struggle to rebuild their lives. It outlines the characteristics of the built environment that may facilitate people to travel as smoothly as possible down this road to recovery and suggests elements of the design process that can help achieve this goal. Designing to Heal highlights the importance of thinking about urban design as a way of nurturing hope and creating the optimal conditions to achieve social objectives"--Provided by publisher.

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