Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture

Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture is the first book to examine the ways that healthcare architecture can provide better assistance in disaster-stricken communities.

Stephen Verderber is an award-winning scholar, researcher, and registered architect whose core specialty is architecture, design therapeutics, and health. He is a Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, at the University of Toronto. He holds a doctorate in architecture from the University of Michigan and is co-founder of R-2ARCH. His many publications include Innovations in Hospice Architecture (2005), Innovations in Hospital Architecture (2010), and Sprawling Cities and Our Endangered Public Health (2012).

Illustration Credits Acknowledgements Part 1: Background 1. Introduction 2. Transportables for Health: A Brief Modern History 3. OFFSITE Part 2: Design 4. Pop-Up Clinics 5. Planning and Design Considerations for Transportable Healthcare Part 3: Case Studies 6. Case Studies 1-18 Appendices 1. Installation Sites 7-18 in New Orleans and Charleston 2. Four Interviews Postscript Notes Index