Stories
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When everyday environments become anxious spaces
Social anxiety disorder isolates those who experience it. Part of the solution is to design public spaces with mental health in mind.
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Designing better mental health wards
Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.
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Designing death in the virtual city
Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.
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The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
Catalogue
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New housing in a cleared area : a study of St Mary's, Oldham / Department of the Environment.
Great Britain. Department of the Environment.Date: 1971- Books
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Children at play / Department of the Environment.
Great Britain. Department of the Environment.Date: 1973- Books
Housing for the elderly : the size of grouped schemes / [authors, Jenny Griffin and Cathy Dean ; prepared by the Housing Development Directorate of the Department of the Environment].
Griffin, Jenny.Date: 1975- Books
Proceedings of a Project Design Workshop on cultivation of medicinal plants and orchids in Sikkim Himalaya / eds. R.C. Sundriyal, Eklabya Sharma.
Project Design Workshop on Cultivation of Medicinal Plants and Orchids in Sikkim Himalaya.Date: 1995- Books
Improving existing hospital buildings for long-stay residents / prepared for CEH by Jean Symons ; drawings by Peter Jones.
Symons, Jean.Date: 1973