Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
Dying to be in nature
The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.
- Article
Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
- Article
The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
Catalogue
- Books
Standards for residential facilities for the mentally retarded : adopted May 5, 1971 / Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, Accreditation Council for Facilities for the Mentally Retarded.
Date: 1971- Books
Shaping the future : community-based residential services and facilities for mentally retarded people / edited by Philip Roos, Brian M. McCann, and Max R. Addison ; National Association for Retarded Citizens.
Date: [1980], ©1980
- Ephemera
- Online
Fountain : a unique residential facility for people living with HIV/AIDS and experiencing problems with drug use.
Date: [between 1990 and 1995]- Books
The role of the outdoors in residential environments for aging / Susan Rodiek, Benyamin Schwarz, editors.
Date: 2011- Books
Toxic communities : environmental racism, industrial pollution, and residential mobility / Dorceta E. Taylor.
Taylor, Dorceta E.Date: [2014]