Health and environment
It has been estimated that the average person in the industrialised world spends up to 85 per cent of their time indoors.

As this book sets out to prove, with so much of our lives spent this way, the increase in Western diseases such as cancer, debilitating sicknesses and allergies can all be traced to the modern built environment as well as our increasing exposure to electromagnetic radiation and the use of untested advanced technology.

In this thought-provoking book, Thomas Saunders asks whether we are continually adjusting our lives in such a way that we are becoming complicit to irreversible change and damage. Sick building syndrome, contaminated land and radio frequency transmission masts are among the areas explored.

By bringing new perspectives to important global environmental and design issues, he suggests steps that we can take to ensure our homes, workplaces, hospitals and schools are safe and conducive to our health. Drawing on his experience as a practising architect and consultant, his book calls for a fresh approach in designing the built environment.


Close Window