Beyond Health Capacity

Spatial Practices in Inclusive Design

Ulysses Sean Vance III

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Routledge
17 August 2025

Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Personal & public health; Urban & municipal planning; Civil engineering, surveying & building

Beyond Health Capacity: Spatial Practices in Inclusive Design sheds light on the systemic challenges communities with limited access to medical support and health maintenance have endured. It emphasizes how approaching medical interventions through non-traditional health facilities can positively impact health's social and environmental impact. Health capacity is an emerging consideration for optimizing a building design to meet health criteria based on physical, virtual, historical, or social space. These emerging practices can be focused on by interrogating the role of planning, construction, and urban design in addressing public health needs, alongside considering access and social justice as an agency in design. This book reflects on past and present efforts interrogating the practical application of inclusive design practices in resolving the spatial challenges of health reform.

By focusing on examples experienced during the pandemic and after, each chapter offers an overview documenting these experiences as approaches to these new competencies, reimagining urbanism around health, and proposing new criteria for the future of healthcare.

This book is essential for students and practitioners working in architecture, community planning, urban design, landscape architecture, and public health.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Edited by: Ulysses Sean Vance III
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9781032879949
ISBN 10: 1032879947
Pages: 295
Publication Date: 17 August 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Inclusive Design 2. Available Environments 3. Accommodating Affordances 4. Appropriate Engagements 5. A Percent for Health 6. Environmental Justice 7. Inclusive Design of Breast Centers 8. Rethinking Architecture: Building Equity through Advocacy in Healthcare Design 9. Informal Health 10. Conclusive Enfranchisement Appendix: Affordance Studies

Ulysses Sean Vance III is an Associate Professor of Architecture in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. He is a licensed architect, educator, and design researcher focused on inclusive design practices.