TY - JOUR TI - Threats to historic mental hospital gardens and parks in Poland AU - Staniewska, Anna TI - Threats to historic mental hospital gardens and parks in Poland AB - 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. VL - 2015 IS - Volume 1 Dziedzictwo zagrożone, ogrody historyczne w Polsce PY - 2015 SN - 2544-0853 C1 - 2544-6630 SP - 103 EP - 120 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przestrzen-urbanistyka-architektura/article/zagrozenia-parkow-i-ogrodow-towarzyszacych-historycznym-szpitalom-psychiatrycznym-w-polsce KW - hospital gardens KW - historic gardens KW - historic mental hospitals