Therapeutic Gardens

Design for Healing Spaces
2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-02298-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Increasingly landscape architects, garden designers, and healthcare professionals are asked to create gardens that meet the physical, psychological, emotional, and social needs of a wide range of users. Landscape architect Daniel Winterbottom and occupational therapist Amy Wagenfeld present a collaborative approach that successfully translates the evidence-based principles of therapeutic design into practice using case studies from around the world. This practical guide demonstrates how gardens support learning, movement, well-being, and mental and psychological health. This second edition has been thoroughly updated throughout to include pandemic and mental health design, trauma-responsive design, designing for neurodivergence, and more. Beautifully designed with over 250 color images throughout, it also includes chapter introductions, summaries, case studies, and personal vignettes. This book is essential for professionals and students in landscape architecture, planning, design, healthcare, and mental health fields.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagenfeld, Amy

Winterbottom, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Gartenbau
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Introduction

1. Foundations

2. Collaborative Design

3. Gardens for Physical Activity and Rehabilitation

4. Gardens for Solace and Comfort

5. Learning Gardens

6. Sensory Gardens

7. Community Gardens

8. Maintaining the Therapeutic Garden

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Image Credits

Index

About the Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Winterbottom, FASLA, RLA, is a landscape architect and professor of landscape architecture. His work focuses on the design of therapeutic environments to address inequities and challenges for those impacted by trauma, mental illness, and displacement. He has created supportive environments for communities of garbage pickers, war victims, and refugees and in prisons.

Amy Wagenfeld, PhD, OTR/L, SCEM, FAOTA, is Principal of Amy Wagenfeld Design and is on faculty in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on inclusive and trauma- and sensory-responsive design for people of all ages, abilities, preferences, and walks of life.