Other Work on Health by the Design for Health (DFH) Team
Better Suburbs
Urbanization is a key feature of the twenty-first century. For several decades urban designers have been building comprehensively planned neighborhoods, towns, and villages, designed to deal with the social, ecological, technological, and aesthetic challenges of urban growth. This project examines this work, classifying designed communities built from the end of World War II through the early twenty-first century, with an emphasis on communities in the United States. Such planned developments include: social neighborhoods, architectural villages, environments supporting diversity, designed enclaves, low-density ecoburbs, higher-density ecocities, and developments emphasizing the role of technology. It then draws out implications for the future design of suburbs.
This project was done in collaboration between the Ann Forsyth, DFH, and Katherine Crewe from Arizona State University.
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