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(3 reviews)
Author: Clare Cooper Marcus Marni Barnes
ISBN : B001QOGTRM
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You can download Free Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations from with Mediafire Link Download LinkUnique and comprehensive,
Healing Gardens provides up-to-date coverage of research findings, relevant design principles and approaches, and best practice examples of or more and more people, the shortest road to recovery is the one that leads through a healing garden. Combining up-to-date information on the therapeutic benefits of healing gardens with practical design guidance from leading experts in the field,
Healing Gardens is an invaluable guide for landscape architects and others involved in creating and maintaining medical facilities as well as an extremely useful reference for those responsible for patient care. With the help of site plans, photographs, and more, the editors present design guidelines and case studies for outdoor spaces in a range of medical settings, including:
- Acute care general hospitals.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Children's hospitals.
- Nursing homes.
- Alzheimer's facilities.
- Hospices.
Order your copy of this practical guide to the therapeutic effects and design of healing gardens today.Direct download links available for Free Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior Living Design) [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 19497 KB
- Print Length: 624 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (June 15, 1999)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B001QOGTRM
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #856,825 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Free Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations
Conclusion:
Despite it's flaws, it is probably the best textbook available on Healing Gardens.
Pros:
Clear advice to help landscape architects design healing gardens.
A comprehensive discussion of theory.
Cons:
If you want a picture book, this is not for you.
No evidence-based design (because there isn't any)
My first impression of this book was not good. I am a visual person and I wanted to see some large full-color pictures of healing gardens. Instead, most of the images were back & white, small and of mediocre quality.
Many of the images appear to have been taken by amateurs and the inexpensive printing on non-glossy paper did not help.
Yes there is a 14-page glossy color insert in the center of the book, but the snapshots shown were tiny, with 3 or 4 clustered on each page. There was no clear connection from the text to these images.
Site plans are critical to landscape gardening. There were only 35 site plans in this book of 610 pages and like the photographs, they too were small; typically about 4 x 4-inches each and none were in color.
The book's subtitle "Therapeutic Benefits..." and the use of Roger Ulrich as the author of Chapter Two suggests that evidence-based design will be central but it seems that there is not much good research to draw from. Ulrich writes "... very little research directly relevant to gardens has used the types of experimental-scientific methods that are considered sound and persuasive...".
Instead of evidence we have to consider the advice of experts and certainly the two main authors: Clarie Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes are experts. They also happen to be very good writers. They have clear suggestions for a wide range of healing gardens.
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