The city of care: strategies to design healthier places

Care and dwelling culture -- Ethics of care and reuse of urban space -- Post-COVID interiors in the city of care -- Imagination as a design tool for a mental wellbeing urbanism -- Hybrid spaces for a new dimension of care -- Cities of proximity. From the neighborhood to the world -- Learning from COVID 19. A comparison of innovative design solutions for human-centred healthcare facilities -- Who says hospitals are ugly? Evolution and trends of architectures for health -- Technological Low Hanging Fruits involved in combating the COVID 19 pandemic -- Capsules of Health in the City.

The book explores care as a transition strategy to a healthier and more sustainable world. After the lesson learned from the pandemic, health as a fundamental human right is increasingly related to a care component: caring for sick people, persons with disabilities, elders, migrants and refugees, women and children, caring for bodies, minds, cities and nature. Endorsing the care system as a female knowledge based on complexity, flexibility, management of the unexpected, sense of responsibility, the project culture can extract this paradigm from the domestic perimeter, bring outside and make it accessible to all in work, politics, relationships, places and communities. The systemic connection between planet and people wellbeing will be grasped through a transdisciplinary perspective that allows to deal with the city of care at a mental, physical, social and global level. The first section addresses care and interior space, dealing with dwelling, working, proximity and cities on a human scale, with a particular attention to the post Covid conditions. The second section deals with healthcare design, the evolution and trend of healing spaces, the influence of technology and robotics on inclusive design processes. The third section considers a social care attitude and deals with the multiethnic urban dimension, care and creativity in design, society and relationships, the right to health of immigrant people.

Intro -- Foreword-Care and Power Sphere -- Preface -- Contents -- Care and Urban Interior Space -- Care and Dwelling Culture -- 1 Dwelling as the Essence of Every Living Being -- 2 Care or the Modern Concept of the House as a "Machine for Living" -- 2.1 Modernism and Healthcare Spaces -- 2.2 Bacteria In or Out? -- 3 The Italian Dwelling Culture -- 3.1 Specificities of the Italian Dwelling Culture According to the Idea of Care -- 3.2 The Italian Translation of the Functionalist Idea of Comfort During the 1930s -- 3.3 Where to Live to Be Happy? -- 4 New Meanings of Care Within the Contemporary Dwelling Culture -- References -- Ethics of Care and Reuse of Urban Space -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Cities and Sustainability -- 3 Ethics of Care -- 4 Reuse of Urban Dismissed Spaces -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Post-COVID Interiors in the City of Care -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Post-Covid Interiors -- 2.1 Homes -- 2.2 Lofts -- 2.3 Mini Apartments -- 3 Private and Public Dimensions of Domesticity -- 3.1 The Kitchen -- 3.2 The Bathroom -- 3.3 The Bedroom -- 3.4 The Outdoor -- 4 Sustainability -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Imagination as a Design Tool for a Mental Wellbeing Urbanism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Role of Imagination -- 2.1 Imagination and Psychological Well Being -- 3 Imagination and Urban Design -- 4 Usability of the Power of the Imagination -- 4.1 Adaptability -- 4.2 Applicability -- References -- Hybrid Spaces for a New Dimension of Care -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Care in a Broad Sense -- 2.1 Well-Being Indicators -- 2.2 Care as "Inhabitable Proximity" -- 2.3 The City of Care -- 3 Design of Dwelling Spaces -- 3.1 Hospitality -- 3.2 Making Home -- 3.3 Flexibility -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Cities of Proximity. From the Neighborhood to the World -- 1 Introduction -- 2 About Space -- 3 About Time -- 4 Conclusions -- References.