Spiritual Wellness and the Built Environment

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-90078-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Imagine a world where buildings and cities actively nurture our well-being, not just physically, but spiritually. There is a growing awareness of the need for a more inclusive and comprehensive approach to wellness strategies in everyday life. This book explores spiritual wellness as a foundational attribute to urban planning and design. Chapters reflect the beginning of this evolving movement in home and community design that tackle our uniquely modern problems of sedentary lives, unhealthy diets, stress, social isolation, pollution, nature deprivation, and inaccessibility to spiritually nurturing places. The attributes of spiritual wellness are presented as defining characteristics informing design strategies. These specific planning and design strategies are presented through case studies from around the globe that highlight the importance of spiritual wellness considerations at all scales of the built environment from rooms to cities. This book is essential to help architects, planners, designers, engineers, healthcare providers, project stakeholders, and graduate students embrace and implement a successful wellness design approach.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tabb, Phillip James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Nicht-Graphische Kunstformen
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Öffentliche Gebäude, Gewerbliche Bauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Definitions and Overview  2. Place-Based Attributes of Spiritual Wellness  3. Experience-Based Attributes of Spiritual Wellness  4. Practice and Process-Based Attributes of Spiritual Wellness  5. Spiritual Wellness at the Personal Scale  6. Spiritual Wellness at the Architectural Scale  7. Spiritual Wellness at the Urban Design Scale  8. Narrative Vignette 1: The Significance of Solar Energy  9. Narrative Vignette 2: The Role of Sacred Geometry  10. Narrative Vignette 3: The Value of Mythic Landscapes  11. Narrative Vignette 4: The Importance of Pilgrimages  12. Spiritual Wellness Summary  Glossary  Suggested Reading

Über Autor(innen)

Phillip James Tabb is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Texas A&M University and was the Liz and Nelson Mitchell Professor of Residential Design. Since 2001, Tabb has been the master plan architect for Serenbe Community – an award-winning sustainable, biophilic, and wellness community being realized near Atlanta, Georgia and the architect of his solar residence in Serenbe. He has been a design educator for 20 years, and practicing urban designer and licensed architect for 30 years.