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Autore: | Verderber Stephen |
Titolo: | Innovations in hospital architecture / / Stephen Verderber |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
Disciplina: | 725.5 |
725/.51047 | |
Soggetto topico: | Hospital architecture - Design and construction |
Health facilities | |
Hospital Design and Construction - trends | |
Architecture - trends | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustration credits; Acknowledgements; PART 1 Background; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 Architecture for health: a brief history of sustainability; CHAPTER 3 The evolving role of site, landscape, and nature; CHAPTER 4 The evolving patient room and PCU; CHAPTER 5 The evolving role of memory, place, and sustainability; CHAPTER 6 Prognostications; PART 2 Design; CHAPTER 7 Designing for hospital-based care; PART 3 Case studies; CHAPTER 8 Case studies; Notes; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | This indispensable reference book captures key recent developments in the rapidly evolving field of sustainable hospital architecture. Today's architects must provide hospitals which enable high quality care for diverse patient populations in carbon neutral care settings, and this book succinctly considers what needs to be done in order to meet that challenge. The contemporary hospital is viewed in the context of global climate change, the planet's diminishing natural resources and the spiralling cost of operating healthcare facilities.Stephen Verderber considers the future of the ho |
Titolo autorizzato: | Innovations in hospital architecture |
ISBN: | 1-136-99978-7 |
1-282-56999-6 | |
9786612569999 | |
0-203-85575-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910456439303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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