Includes bibliographical references.

Infection and disease transmission : pandemics, epidemics, and outbreaks / Dak Kopec and Marisela Thompson -- Isolation, quarantine, infection control : architecture and planning in service to public health / John Michael Currie -- The social construction of airborne infections / Jessica Cassyle Carr -- Distancing and colonial design : segregated asylums to control leprosy in Suriname / Stephen Snelders, Henk Menke, and Toine Pieters -- Pine forest and sunlight : Alvar Aalto's Paimio Sanitorium / Virginia Cartwright -- Legionnaires' disease and water systems : history and prevention / Michelle Brune -- Infection control through environmental design / Emmanuel Udomiaye, Eze Desy Osondu Kalu and Cheche Kalu -- Infection risk mitigation using pedestrian dynamics / Ashok Srinivasan and Sirish Namilae -- Green infrastructure for mosquito control / Phillip Zawarus -- Emergency department design in response to pandemics : a systematic literature review / Hui Cai and Marzia Chowdhury -- Environmental role of open space in infection and disease control / Maryam Ekhtiari and Neda Akbari -- Viral and bacterial infection prevention through intentional design / Debra Harris and Denise N. Williams -- Disease control within high-traffic areas : a series of mini case studies / Rose Mary Botti-Salitsky and Lisa Bonnet DePalma -- Retail design in a post pandemic world / Bhakti Sharma -- Future teaching of design courses post pandemic / AnnaMarie Bliss -- Architecture without prelates, magistrates, and admirals : the R3build Pavilion / Charles Drozynski -- Open learning spaces : redefining school design in a post-pandemic world / Paramita Atmodiwirjo and Yandi Andri Yatmo -- Toward culturally enriched communities - Covid-19 implications / Tasoulla Hadjiyanni and Emilie Wambeke -- Mobile testing facilities inspired by origami science / Ming Hu.

"This edited collection explores disease transmission and the ways that the designed environment has promoted or limited its spread. It discusses the many design factors that can be used for infection and disease control through lenses of history, public health, building technology, design, and education. This book calls on designers to consider the role of the built environment as the primary source of bacterial, viral, and fungal transfers through fomites, ventilation systems, and from overcrowding and spatial organization. Through 19 original contributions, it provides an array of perspectives to understand how the designed environment may offer reprieve from disease. The authors build a historical foundation of infection and disease, using examples ranging from lazarettos to leprosy centers to show how the ability to control infection and disease has long been a concern for humanity. The book goes on to discuss disease propagation, putting forth a variety of ideas to control the transmission of pathogens, including environmental design strategies, pedestrian dynamics, and open space. Its final chapters serve as a prospective way forward, focusing on COVID-19 and the built environment in a post-pandemic world. Written for students and academics of architecture, design, and urban planning, this book ignites creative action on the ways to design our built environment differently and more holistically"--