Disease, Climate, and the Built Environment
Lecture: How Do Designed Environments Affect Health?
Event: Design Optimism San Francisco
Host: Metropolis Magazine
May 17, 2023
“A pandemic is a course correction to the trajectory of civilization,” commented researcher Alex de Waal of Tufts University to Ed Yong in a 2021 The Atlantic article.
In Design Optimism’s second presentation, I addressed the intersection of disease, climate, and the built environment. Over the course of global history, from the Plague of Justinian in 541 CE through COVID-19, 18 to 20 pandemics have occurred, I noted. Urbanization has accelerated their frequency, sparking investigation of how designed environments affect—and are affected by—health.
A summary appears here.
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