Part 1: Background 1. Introduction. 2. Architecture for mental and behavioral health: a brief history—1960-2010. 3. Special populations: children and adolescents, the aged and the displaced. Part 2: Design 4. Reinventing an asylum. 5. Planning and design considerations for behavioural health architecture. Part 3: Case Studies 6. Case studies 1-25. Appendix: Urban Morphology of CAMH Since 1860. Postscript. Notes. Index.
Biography
Stephen Verderber is an award-winning scholar, researcher, and registered architect (US) whose core specialty is architecture, design therapeutics, and health. He is Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design and at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, at the University of Toronto, Canada. He holds a doctorate in architecture from the University of Michigan, is cofounder of R-2ARCH, and is widely published. His books include Healthcare Architecture in an Era of Radical Transformation (2000), Compassion in Architecture: Evidence-Based Design for Health (2005), Innovations in Hospice Architecture (2005), Innovations in Hospital Architecture (2010), Sprawling Cities and Our Endangered Public Health (2012), and Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture (2016).
