Places of the Soul : Architecture and Environmental Design As a Healing Art

Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales vii Preface - New millennium: new issues ix Acknowledgements xi Dedication xi 1 Architecture: does it matter? 1(8) 2 Architecture with health-giving intent 9(22) 3 Architecture as art 31(6) 4 Building for planetary health 37(20) 5 Building for human health 57(14) 6 Qualities and quantities 71(12) 7 Conversation or conflict? 83(22) 8 Space for living in 105(38) 9 Design as a listening process: creating places with users and builders 143(16) 10 Ensouling buildings 159(26) 11 Building as a health-giving process 185(18) 12 Healing silence: the architecture of peace 203(14) 13 Children and environment 217(12) 14 The urban environment 229(54) Sustainable values, urban pressures 229(2) Urban life: urban needs 231(7) Cities as places 238(10) Cities for people 248(6) Cities for life 254(20) Eco-cities: Utopia or practicality? 274(9) 15 Building for tomorrow 283(16) List of photographs and project-related drawings 299(6) Index 305