#10 Symptoms & Diagnoses

The healthy city and its infrastructure. On the rediscovered interest in the relationship between medicine and planning.

"If we want to understand why hospitals look the way they do, we need to know how they are connected to the prevailing medical attitude. In a sense, every new health concept comes with its own ideal hospital design. If you compare the Otto Wagner Hospital with the tower blocks of the new AKH, you immediately recognise diametrically opposed ideas of healthcare." 

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