Description
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and authoritative guide offers an evidence-based overview of healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes from planning to post-occupancy evaluation.
Trade Review"This is an exceptionally well-written, well-researched and well-illustrated book on designing and creating therapeutic landscapes. Rarely before has this topic been so thoroughly documented in one easy-to-read book that provides essential information to landscape architects, garden designers, healthcare workers, therapists and patients." (Linda A. Irvine,
Landscapes/Paysages Magazine, OALA, FCSLA, ASLA; Manager, Parks and Open Space Development, City of Markham, Ontario, Canada)
"Taking time to get in tune with your surroundings and learn to love nature has proven a therapeutic process for many, including Naomi Sachs. Sachs is Founding Director of the Therapeutic Landscapes Network, and has been able to translate a personal passion for nature into a new book, co-written by Clare Cooper Marcus, which just came out this week called Therapeutic Landscapes: An Evidence-Based Approach to Designing Healing Gardens and Restorative Outdoor Spaces. The new publication has been long-anticipated and referenced as the "single most comprehensive and authoritative guide to designing healing gardens and restorative outdoor spaces." (naturesacred.org, October 2013)
Table of ContentsForeword vii
Acknowledgments ix
One Introduction 1
Two History of Hospital Outdoor Space 6
Three Theory, Research, and Design Implications 14
Four Types and Locations of Therapeutic Landscapes in Healthcare 36
Five The Participatory Design Process 47
Teresia Hazen
Six General Design Guidelines for Healthcare Facilities 56
Seven Children’s Hospital Gardens 91
Eight Gardens for Cancer Patients 115
Nine Gardens for the Frail Elderly 129
Ten Gardens for People with Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias 148
Eleven Hospice Gardens 165
Twelve Gardens for Mental and Behavioral Health Facilities 179
Thirteen Gardens for Veterans and Active Service Personnel 206
Fourteen Rehabilitation Gardens 222
Fifteen Restorative Gardens in Public Spaces 235
Sixteen Horticultural Therapy and Healthcare Garden Design 250
Teresia Hazen
Seventeen Planting and Maintaining Therapeutic Gardens 261
Marni Barnes
Eighteen Therapeutic Landscapes and Sustainability 288
Nineteen The Business Case and Funding for Therapeutic Gardens 298
Twenty Evaluation of Therapeutic Gardens 308
Index 317
