ARCH 430 : Health and Design

This course will provide students with a framework to assess different urban and built environments from health and wellbeing viewpoints. Students in this class will learn about tools and techniques of designing healthier buildings and communities through a series of case studies, contemporary developments and best practices. Based on the readings, lectures, blackboard discussions, and assignments, students will become more capable of identifying opportunities to increase community health and well-being, and thereby improve the quality of life of urban populations within their work as architects, planners, health care practitioners and within other professional endeavors.