Places of the soul : architecture and environmental design as a healing art / Christopher Day

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents -- Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. -- Preface -- New millennium: new issues -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- 1. Architecture: does it matter? -- 2. Architecture with health-giving intent -- 3. Architecture as art -- 4. Building for planetary health -- 5. Building for human health -- 6. Qualities and quantities -- 7. Conversation or conflict? -- 8. Space for living in -- 9. Design as a listening process: creating places with users and builders -- 10. Ensouling buildings -- 11. Building as a health-giving process -- 12. Healing silence: the architecture of peace -- 13. Children and environment -- 14. The urban environment -- Sustainable values, urban pressures -- Urban life: urban needs -- Cities as places -- Cities for people -- Cities for life -- Eco-cities: Utopia or practicality? -- 15. Building for tomorrow -- List of photographs and project-related drawings -- Index.