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Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior Living Design)
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.8515
EAN: 9780471192039
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0471192031
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 624
Publication Date: June 15, 1999
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
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Editorial Review:
Unique 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.
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Despite flaws, this is the best textbook for Healing Gardens
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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Essential Resource for the Healing Garden Designer
Beautiful organization, research examples to support common-sense recommendations, case studies with pictures, this superb book is the first stop for the healing garden designer. The case studies and design recommendations are grouped by health care setting, which makes the reading more focused. By far the best professional text on the topic.
Rating: - Aplicaciones para la salud
Creo que es un buen punto de partida para comenzar a incluir en el diseño del entorno y el paisaje pautas que incluyan un beneficio directo en la salud de quienes lo contemplan.
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