Assignment 1: UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC TOILET FROM THE CONCEPT OF PEC NAME : NOR AIN NAZIRABINTI BUCHARI MATRIC NO. : A14BE0097 LECTURER NAME : ASSOC.PROF. DR. MAHMUD BIN JUSAN From the journal “Malaysia Ecology Sustainable Toilet [M.E.S.T] : New Design Paradigm For Green & Zero Energy Public Toilets” by Azimin Samsul M Tazilan; Nik Lukman Nik Ibrahim; Zuhairuse M Darus; Isma. MS. Usman, Architecture Research Group [ARG] Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia : Public Toilet in Malaysia not follow the current lifestyle and also outmoded. The issues at public toilet are involves vandalism, hygiene, privacy, health, ventilation, security, lighting and aesthetics. Public toilet in Malaysia has worst in this region because the issues such as hygiene, health, security, vandalism, privacy, ventilation, lighting and aesthetics have increased the publics’ concerned. A simple building constructed with basic facility up-sadly ‘presented’ with poor design, and poor maintenance to the end user. Figure 1. Public toilet at Penang, Malaysia. Issues such as vandalism, …show more content…
Malaysia had officially launched the Clean Toilet Campaign in 1997. According to the World Toilet Organisation (WTO), a person visits the toilet around 2500 times a year or six to eight times a day, on a average. The organization stated that cleanliness of toilets is pressing issue worldwide, where half of the globe’s population does not have access to proper sanitation or toilets which are properly designed. The organization stated that cleanliness of toilets is a pressing issues worldwide, where half of the globe’s population does not have access to proper sanitation or toilets which are properly
Amidst the school kids and the naked bum, there is a toilet. The free-standing, self-cleaning, public restroom installed by JCDecaux Company only costs a quarter. If you can stomach the sight of the remnants of human excrement and the pungent odor of fecal matter mixed with urine, stale cigarettes, and vomit, this toilet can prove to be extremely convenient. For those who drank too much Starbucks on their way to work or those with a crying four year-old, a public restroom amongst all the “customer only” signs seems like a reasonable solution. With a twenty minute limit, there is adequate time to relieve your bowels, seek shelter from the rain, shoot up ...
Diet, Health, and Sanitation in Victorian England are so interrelated that it is difficult to examine one without being led to another. A.S. Wohl sums it up when he states: "It is rather commonplace of modern medical opinion that nutrition plays a crucial role in the body's ability to resist disease and the experience of the World Health Organization indicates that where sanitary conditions are rudimentary and disease is endemic (that is, where nineteenth-century conditions prevail, so to speak) diet may be the crucial factor in infection" (Wohl 56). However, there was often a vicious cycle at work in these trying times and it is difficult to point to the root causes of some of the contagion that infected people. Also there were various philosophies, some not as instructive as others, being practiced in the early part of the nineteenth century that tried to explain sanitation problems and poverty. When can see how pervasive this problem was as it made its way into much of the literature at the time. Its representation was rather grim. Works such as Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist and Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton represent the harsh reality of these conditions.
“The 1910 Report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching… further heightened expectations for substantial improvements in the quality of medical care and in the general health of the population” ( Winkelstein, Jr., 2009, p. 44). Issues such as major medical care problems and public safety existed in US cities after industrialization. The emerging progressive era would work to correct sanitation and medical system issues which lead to the US improving conditions. Most of the U.S. population would not acknowledge that there were any problems and these institutions would try to exclude certain people from having access to any health programs. In the Progressive era issues in the healthcare and sanitation systems were improved
Home rule city is defined as the rules under which a city operates; local governments have considerable independent governing power under these charters. General rule city is a “general law” in which cities and towns may act or organize themselves only as explicitly permitted by statutory law passed by the state legislature; the constitution also limits what they can do.
Jonathan Swift allows a reader to think critically about particular social problems that are discussed in his satiric work, “The Lady’s Dressing Room”. Strephon discovers his lover, Celia’s dressing room and to his dismay finds out that women are not as cleanly and neat as he had thought. The artificiality of beauty and beauty as a whole are major themes in the work. Just as Swift transforms excreta into a lovely, witty poem, Celia is making beauty out of her body that is viewed as naturally disgusting. Jonathan Swift portrays women as purely artificial because Strephon sees that they hide their disgusting features, such as the fact that they too excrete their bowels, and put on a completely different act for society.
Throughout the ages, mankind has been troubled by a multitude of questions. Through perseverance and great intellectual curiosity, many of these questions have answers. Long have they pondered questions such as “Why is the sky blue?” “Why is grass green?” “Is the sky falling?” “What is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?” and “What is the average velocity of an unladen swallow?” Thus far, we have been successful in compiling answers. However, there are other questions such as “Where do all the socks in laundry go?” “Why are gooses geese but mooses not meese?” and “What would we do without any hypothetical questions?” that have yet to be answered. However, through meditation, self-inquiry and theoretical logic, one of the unanswered questions has been answered. “What do women really do in the bathroom?”
Thirty of my parents were able to attend the workshop. We also provided them with information to take home. After the workshop many of parents stayed back or emailed the room to ask further questions about their child’s individual success in potty training at school. Many parents asked in email what potty training at school consisted of, what techniques did we use while their child sat on the potty and overall how to make then successful at home. Artifact #2 talked about the items they may need of they didn’t already have them in their home as well as tips for them. They keys to success in all aspects in life is patience. In Artifact #2 it talked about what not to do so that your child can not only be productive in their potty training journey
Child providers need to know the correct way to change a diaper and appropriate ways to teach children to use the toilet in order to prevent the spread of illness.
The Interaction Order of Public Bathrooms, written by Spencer E. Cahill, is an article that does a fairly well job at analyzing interpersonal relationships and individual practices in restrooms. Cahill used ideologies of Emile Durkheim, Erving Goffman, Margaret Atwood, Horace Miner, and Lyn Lofland to help construct his perspective on the individual’s expectations of bathroom etiquette through our experiences with others and how we internalize these behaviors.
...mba, K., 2012. Public facilities management and action research for sustainbility. 1st ed. Kgs. Lyngby: DTU Management Engineering.
Being transgender refers to having a gender identity that differs from one’s assigned gender. Therefore, one can be male biologically, but behavior and feelings are of the female gender. In a move to ensure equality of all persons as stipulated in the constitution, there have been discussions mainly targeted at the issue of bathrooms in schools. Transphobia has affected how transgender people relate with other people, and the bathrooms can be used to prevent it at an early age. Also, some other advantages have been identified with unisex bathrooms for instance reduction of bullying and drug abuse in male bathrooms. Transphobia can be reduced by the introduction of unisex bathrooms in both secondary
Santini, Claudio and Dafna Zifarro. Green is Beautiful: The Eco-Friendly House Australia, The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd. 2009, Print.
Recently, there has been an uproar of debates on the topic of gender neutral bathrooms. Most of the debates have had to deal with the LGBTQ+ community trying to use the bathroom they identify with. However, these debates have mainly focused on transgenders, “transgender is a term used to describe people whose gender identity differs from the sex the doctor marked on their birth certificate” (GLADD). There has been several bills that “have been filed in three states to prevent transgender people from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity” (Tannehill). Kentucky has tried to pass bills that target transgender students, but the bill in Texas and Florida would apply to everywhere (Tannehill). There are many different sides to this
Despite the fact that novel technologies are continuously under development to complement existing practices in coming up with greener buildings, the universal intent is that such structures are designed to diminish the general effect on the built environment on health of the humans in addition to the natural environment via: Diminishing environmental degradation, pollution and waste, improving productivity of the employee and guarding occupant health, efficient usage of water, energy, in addition to other resources.
Separate cleaning equipment shall be provided for use in toilets, public areas and external areas. (Unsure)