Healthcare Landscape Design

We think of the hospital as a small city. The analogy is a powerful one, a continual reminder that it is first of all a place of human relationships. We conceive of it as a community of neighborhoods, formed around gardens and plazas-moments of embedded nature-connected by streets and boulevards. The clarity of these patterns is a comfort in a place of high emotion. Patient and visitor alike know where they are, where they are going, and how they will return. Throughout the journey and in the clinical spaces themselves, they experience the healing power of sunlight and fliage; they can step out of a breath of fresh air.

George E. Marsh, Jr.