Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Verderber is an award-winning scholar, researcher, and registered architect whose core specialty is architecture, design therapeutics, and health. He is a Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, at the University of Toronto. He holds a doctorate in architecture from the University of Michigan and is co-founder of R-2ARCH. His many publications include Innovations in Hospice Architecture (2005), Innovations in Hospital Architecture (2010), and Sprawling Cities and Our Endangered Public Health (2012). Klappentext Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture is the first book to examine the ways that healthcare architecture can provide better assistance in disaster-stricken communities. Zusammenfassung Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture is the first book to examine the ways that healthcare architecture can provide better assistance in disaster-stricken communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustration Credits Acknowledgements Part 1: Background 1. Introduction 2. Transportables for Health: A Brief Modern History 3. OFFSITE Part 2: Design 4. Pop-Up Clinics 5. Planning and Design Considerations for Transportable Healthcare Part 3: Case Studies 6. Case Studies 1-18 Appendices 1. Installation Sites 7-18 in New Orleans and Charleston 2. Four Interviews Postscript Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Verderber, Stephen (University of Toronto Verderber, Verderber Stephen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2015
• EAN: 9781138847194
• ISBN: 978-1-138-84719-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Architecture, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice, Aid & relief programmes, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Architecture: professional practice, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings, Aid and relief programmes