A

AIA CES Credits

AV Office

Abstract Publication

Academic Affairs

Academic Calendar, Columbia University

Academic Calendar, GSAPP

Admissions Office

Advanced Standing Waiver Form

Alumni Board

Alumni Office

Architecture Studio Lottery

Assistantships

Avery Library

Avery Review

Avery Shorts

S

STEM Designation

Satisfactory Academic Progress

Scholarships

Skill Trails

Student Affairs

Student Awards

Student Conduct

Student Council (All Programs)

Student Financial Services

Student Health Services at Columbia

Student Organization Handbook

Student Organizations

Student Services Center

Student Services Online (SSOL)

Student Work Online

Studio Culture Policy

Studio Procedures

Summer Workshops

Support GSAPP

Questions Concerning Health: Stress and Wellness in Johannesburg

Purchase Paperback
Purchase at Columbia University Press

At a moment when the world’s population increasingly lives in urban settings, the public health of cities—or the intersection of stress and wellness with architecture and urbanism—is a matter of pressing concern for designers. Questions Concerning Health reports on this critical terrain, focusing particularly on Johannesburg, South Africa (a notable test case in which the term “social equivalency,” used by epidemiologists, also carries considerable historical and spatial resonance). Among the findings of the studio’s research was that health is an intensively local phenomenon, which demands intensively local responses in the form of more sensitive architectural typologies as well as urban planning. Questions Concerning Health presents a number of essays from experts on urban health and Johannesburg in particular as well as the design proposals of eight students who participated in the research studio.