Spirit & place : healing our environment, healing environment /
Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence on the environment, our health, and how we think, feel and behave both individually and socially. Spirit & Place shows how to work towards a sustainable environment through socially inclusive processe...
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Oxford ; Boston :
Architectural Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Spirit & Place Healing our environment Healing environment; Copyright; Contents; Healthy building; Author's note; Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales; Foreword; In the beginning; Us and it; Part One: Issues of the Twenty-First Century; CHAPTER ONE Beneath the surface of today; Our world, our time, our opportunities; A new way for our time; The challenges of today; Problems and opportunities; Choice and consciousness; Beyond individualism: the journey from style to purpose; Human impact; Conscious reconnection; Elemental rebalancing; Process and life; From past to future; Old wisdom.
- New needsOld limits; new consciousness; CHAPTER TWO The elements of life; The nourishing elements; Rooting earth; Water for life; Fresh air; Nurturing warmth; CHAPTER THREE Design in the context of life; Hidden costs; Costs beneath the surface; Freedom or environment or freedom and environment; Refinding visibility; re-establishing the circle; Sustainability versus affordability; Sustaining sustainability; Either-or or and-and-and; Ecological awareness; Climate-responsive design; Sustainability versus aesthetics; Part Two: People, place and process; CHAPTER FOUR Place and people.
- How environment works on us: unseen influencesMulti-level in.uence; Place and life, mood and individuality; Integrity: issues of truth; Objects or places: the form and space of our surroundings; Line, form, space and us; Polarities of life and consciousness; Place and territory: .eld and boundary; Form-giving principles; Outer forms: inner resonance; Living with traffic; Traf.c and environment; Reducing traf.c; At home in place: de-alienating environment; Connection with place-shaping processes; Scale: socially connecting or alienating; The substance of our surroundings; The speed of change.
- Anchoring roots in a global worldReconnection with earth; Culturizing identity; Chapter 5 Process-based design; Social inclusion: participatory design; Social process as a healing force; Design with, not for, people; Players, community and place; Consensus technique; What places say: subliminal messages; The subliminal language of place; Consensus design process; Organic development of place; Development: place-destroying or place-con.rming?; Past and future; Organic design process; Growing places; Growth process; Growth nodes; Urban densi.cation; Fitting in; Part Three: Building to Heal.
- CHAPTER SIX Environment and healthLife, soul, spirit and place: multi-level health issues; Levels of being; The physical body; Life energy; Moods and feelings; Individuality; Wholeness and health; Building for health; Sick building avoidance; Precautionary practice; Material factors; Indoor air; Lighting; Electrical pollution; Ionizing radiation; Earth radiation; Daylight and health; Life-energizing surroundings; Soul, place and health; De-stressing; The senses: stimulus, stress and delight; Balance; Spirit nourishment; CHAPTER SEVEN Healing by design.
