Boiled Frog Syndrome: Your Health And The Built Environment; Author: Saunders, Thomas; Paperback

Author: Saunders, Thomas
Paperback; Illustrations
274 pages
Published: June 2002
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN: 0470845538

The last century saw a dramatic increase in urban-related illnesses. Poor office design, glaring lights and bad ventilation, gave rise to the condition Sick Building Syndrome, and heavily polluted, built-up environments, resulted in the growth of allergies and asthma. The aptly titled Boiled Frog Syndrome presents a vital, urban survival guide, offering solutions and remedies to our inner-city malaise. This volume is an essential guide for architects and urban planners. The book offers innovative design solutions to combat the negative effects on occupants' health, enabling the architect to design and build healthier and stress-free urban environments.The built environment is often quoted as being the source of the diseases of Western civilization. This book addresses this idea and presents the history of how this occurred and proposes solutions to this seemingly apocalyptic state.