From Hippocrates’ text On Air, Waters and Places to contemporary debates, the question of how best to design the built environment to positively impact public health has a long history.

Lifestyled Health and Places, produced as part of Harvard University’s Health and Places Initiative, elaborates on the opportunities offered to designers in engaging concerns of public health - not only as an obligation, but also as a means of deepening the disciplines of architecture and design.

From Hippocrates’ text On Air, Waters and Places to contemporary debates, the question of how best to design the built environment to positively impact public health has a long history.

Lifestyled Health and Places, produced as part of Harvard University’s Health and Places Initiative, elaborates on the opportunities offered to designers in engaging concerns of public health - not only as an obligation, but also as a means of deepening the disciplines of architecture and design.