Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, “The Miasmist: George E. Waring, Jr. and Landscapes of Public Health”
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Topic Health
Health can be a powerful lens for analyzing design and planning priorities. Investigations of the many links between health and the built environment—from air quality and food access to housing and mobility—reveal the power of design to support health and healing in preemptive and progressive ways.
In Cotton Kingdom, Now, Sara Zewde retraces Frederick Law Olmsted’s route through the Southern states
“The mountain ranges, the valleys, and the great waters of America, all trend north and…
Womxn in Design on shifts in design pedagogy: “The conditions in which we learn become the conditions we practice and reproduce.”
It’s been almost three years since the #MeToo movement started launching public awareness around the…
Dual-Use: Farshid Moussavi on rethinking residential architecture in the wake of Covid-19
The pandemic has had an immediate and tangible impact upon urban life—rewiring and, in some…
Toshiko Mori talks designing pandemic-resilient cities for BBC’s The Conversation podcast
Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture Toshiko Mori was recently a…
Will cities remain resilient in a post-COVID world? BBC asks Jerold Kayden
Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design Jerold Kayden is one of…
Rethinking the “Room” through the Pandemic: Isolation, Openness, and Confrontation
by Clara Hu Me (MArch I ’24) Based on a formal and theoretical examination of…
Will urban life recover when the pandemic is finally over? Alex Krieger on the fate of the American city after Covid
Yes, the pandemic (somewhat understandably) and the protests for justice (sadly) are leading to a…
Sol Camacho on the impact of the pandemic on design: “It feels like a completely different world.”
“I feel how much of a protagonist public space is in this moment we’re going…
All Together: Alex Krieger on summoning ideals during a period of crisis
Optimism in America is in short supply. Could it be otherwise? A fearsome pandemic has…