Homeless Shelter Design
Considerations for Shaping Shelters and the Public Realm
(Detselig Enterprises Ltd, 2008)
LIB 305
Design contributes to how we see our cities and, through its connection with function, it determines how we live within our cities. This book provides insight into one aspect of the interconnection: the design and function of shelters for homeless individuals. It evolved out of an applied research project—a fusion between the disciplines of environmental design and social work—that sought to better appreciate design possibilities for a homeless shelter in downtown Calgary, Alberta Canada. But through a deeper analysis, a broader story emerged.
The authors found little scholarship on the question of how to design and plan shelters for homeless people, so they undertook their own research by analyzing 63 shelters in 25 cities in Canada, the US, and the UK. The principles that began to emerge were not only useful to the authors’ work in Calgary, but also could be helpful to people interested in the design of homeless shelters in general. These two things—the specifics as to Calgary and the more general principles that emerge in relation to Calgary and those precedents beyond it—are the main subject matter of this book.
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Author
John R. Graham is a professor of Social Work at UBC Okanagan and former director of the school. Prior to coming to UBC Okanagan, he was the director of the School of Social Work at Florida Atlantic University, and before that at The University of Calgary for 17 years where he held a 10-year research chair as Murray Fraser Professor, and served successively as MSW International Concentration Program Coordinator and PhD Program Coordinator.
Christine A. Walsh is an associate professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary and holds an adjunct assistant professorship at McMaster University.
Beverly A. Sandalack is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary and the director of the Urban Lab, a research group in the faculty.
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Paper ISBN: 9781550593570
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