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Smart Technologies and Design For Healthy Built Environments

Smart Technologies and Design For Healthy Built Environments

Ming Hu

Smart Technologies and Design For Healthy Built Environments

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Ming Hu School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA

ISBN 978-3-030-51291-0 ISBN 978-3-030-51292-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51292-7

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Foreword: Smart Technologies for a Healthy Built Environment

As an architect and neuroscientist I consumed Professor Ming Hu’s new book, on smart technologies and the built environment, with interest and pleasure. The book proves timely and strategic on numerous fronts, including through its comprehensive coverage of pressing issues concerning public and population health as well as its thought-provoking connections between design and wellness. Professor Hu methodically crafts and unfolds a compelling story concerning the responsibilities of architects to meaningfully foster the health of users of the built environment, while revealing vital links between design, technology, and duties around societal well-being. Beginning with early historical actors such as Hippocrates (do not harm) and Vitruvius (site, wind, light water), and ending with remarkable case studies of seminal contemporary buildings, Prof. Hu takes us on a rich journey across the centuries as architects endeavored to connect the ways we design with the impacts on people’s lives. Along this path many stories are told that capture and convey the developm