- Title Pages
- Introduction
-
Part I Invisible Systems -
1 The Design of the Invisible -
2 Design Thinking -
3 The Logic of Creativity -
Part II Education -
4 Creative Education -
5 Schools and Communities -
6 Reconstructing Design Education -
Part III Infrastructure -
7 Fracture-Critical Failures -
8 Overextended Infrastructure -
9 Designed Disasters -
Part IV Public Health -
10 The Infrastructure of Health -
11 Healthy Landscapes -
12 Viral Cities -
Part V Politics -
13 Designer Politics -
14 The Politics of No -
15 Left, Right, and Wrong -
Part VI Economics -
16 An Opposable Economy -
17 A Third Industrial Revolution -
18 Metadesign -
Part VII Beliefs -
19 Community Resilience -
20 Evolutionary Transformation -
21 Spatializing Knowledge -
Postscript A Past and Possible Future - Index
- Index
Healthy Landscapes
Healthy Landscapes
- Chapter:
- (p.106) 11 Healthy Landscapes
- Source:
- Designing Our Way to a Better World
- Author(s):
Thomas Fisher
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
This chapter expands on the connection between human and environmental health by considering the diverse ethical reasons for protecting open space and the natural environment. It reviews our various conceptions of nature and its value, and examines our responsibilities toward environmental health in an increasingly overcrowded world
Keywords: environmental health, open space, conceptions of nature, natural value, overcrowding
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- Title Pages
- Introduction
-
Part I Invisible Systems -
1 The Design of the Invisible -
2 Design Thinking -
3 The Logic of Creativity -
Part II Education -
4 Creative Education -
5 Schools and Communities -
6 Reconstructing Design Education -
Part III Infrastructure -
7 Fracture-Critical Failures -
8 Overextended Infrastructure -
9 Designed Disasters -
Part IV Public Health -
10 The Infrastructure of Health -
11 Healthy Landscapes -
12 Viral Cities -
Part V Politics -
13 Designer Politics -
14 The Politics of No -
15 Left, Right, and Wrong -
Part VI Economics -
16 An Opposable Economy -
17 A Third Industrial Revolution -
18 Metadesign -
Part VII Beliefs -
19 Community Resilience -
20 Evolutionary Transformation -
21 Spatializing Knowledge -
Postscript A Past and Possible Future - Index
- Index