HEALTH & THE CITY

Planetree President Susan Frampton began her mission roughly 40 years ago after her own negative experience in a hospital. The goal of...

Light is important for daily human functions as it allows us to perform activities but it is also very important as it affects human...

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) refers to the ability of a microorganism to prevent an antimicrobial such as an antibiotic, from having an...

As you probably know by now (if you have been following our posts) each week we visit a different healthcare facility located within the...

Dr. Dhruv Khullar has seen a variety of patients at the beginning and end of their lives suffering from an illness alone. Recently social...

When we hear the word 'City', we tend to imagine buildings that try to touch the sky, bustling traffic,bridges,parks and several other...

It is very obvious when you pass a hospital. They usually consist of large complex's that are comprised of many other smaller scale...

Virtual Reality (VR) is a powerful tool that has developed and advanced a lot in the past few years. It is being used intensively in the...

While we were doing the site analysis for our design, I found out there were quite a number of churches within North Lawndale community....

This is one variable in the disparity of access to healthcare. People who live in rural areas face many more factors in living healthy...

In the recent decades, Architects and Urban planners have been acknowledging that some of their experiments failed miserably and are...

" A healthy city is one that is continually creating and improving those physical and social environments and expanding those community...

How exactly does a physician, hospital, or care center get reimbursed for the services they provide? As discussed in past blogs,...

What is the definition of resilience? According to dictionary.com: noun 1.the power or ability to return to the original form, position,...

Our area of interest for this semester's design project is the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago. Within this community resides the Cook...

Is there room in the Architecture Profession for the Socio - Political Architect? Latent Design - Katherine Darnstadt - Tactical Leverage...

Melanie Evans writes about hospitals losing patients for ambulatory care or outpatient clinics. It’s not economically sustainable for...

In design we have various standards and guidelines for the buildings and spaces we design. When it comes to healthcare in correctional...

Cook County Health + Hospital System The new Cook County Health and Hospital System was designed by Gensler and partnered with Forum...