Stories
- Article
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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How architecture builds a profession of stress
Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.
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Is it really OK to not be OK?
Our mental healthcare system is still the poor relation of services that treat physical illness, and the pandemic has shone a spotlight on this situation. Campaigner James Downs argues for fundamental change.
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A story of death, trauma and austerity
Marienna Pope-Weidemann, whose teenage cousin Gaia died after going missing, advocates a rethink of our systems, which currently fail many in mental distress.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
"Mental health planning - criticism"
Date: c. 1969-1970Reference: PP/RKF/B.9/7Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)- Books
The urban planner in health planning : a report / by the American Society of Planning Officials.
American Society of Planning Officials.Date: 1968- Archives and manuscripts
Meeting planning, reports and notes
Date: 1998Reference: SA/MIN/D/2Part of: Mind (The Mental Health Charity): archives- Books
Mental health and the built environment : more than bricks and mortar? / David Halpern.
Halpern, David (David S.)Date: 1995- Books
Urban sprawl and public health : designing, planning, and building for healthy communities / Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, Richard Jackson.
Frumkin, HowardDate: [2004]