Anna Staniewska
Technical Transactions, Architecture Issue 5 A (10) 2014, 2014, pp. 47 - 60
https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.14.144.3232The beneficial influence of designed green spaces on human health and well-being is widely known and indisputable. Aspects of landscape design are analyzed with regards to human sciences, such as medicine, psychiatry, psychology and sociology in particular. In this context heritage gardens play a vital and specific role influencing quality of life, as they are examples of harmoniously designed landscapes: diverse and rich in cultural meanings. As such, they have a particular therapeutic significance, especially that they stand in opposition to an ongoing process of chaotic urbanization.
Anna Staniewska
Technical Transactions, Volume 8 Year 2018 (115), 2018, pp. 5 - 19
https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.18.112.8887Anna Staniewska
Przestrzeń Urbanistyka Architektura, Volume 1 Dziedzictwo zagrożone, ogrody historyczne w Polsce, 2015, pp. 103 - 120
Specially designed landscapes accompanied mental hospitals built in 19th and at the beginning of 20th century and were meant to have a significant therapeutic effect. They often are beautiful English landscape park examples and in Britain they were designed also by famous landscapes architects of that time. Social attitudes towards mental illness caused their isolation which protected them from change for a long time until the healthcare system reform in the UK. The article identifies main threats to historic psychiatric hospitals of that period in Poland referring to British experiences.