Dr.Hesham Mohamed El-Barmelgy
Professor of Sustainable Development & Urban Design Dean of Faculty of Regional & Urban Planning - Cairo University
El-Barmelgy Consultant Office (BSC) ... www.bscoffice.org (email)
Sustainable Landscape and Healing Gardens
- Citation:
- Barmelgy, H. M., "Sustainable Landscape and Healing Gardens", International Journal of Development and Sustainability, vol. 2, issue 3 - ISSN: 2168-2065, pp. 2051-2065, 2013.
Abstract:
Sustainable landscape has been pointed at lately, in most of the sustainability literature, as an ecological way for promoting sustainable development. The paper, in its search for an appropriate landscape typology to promote sustainable landscape, targeted the healing gardens landscape. The concept of healing gardens is an ambiguous concept that has been mistakenly interpreted by many as a sort of infirmary garden attached to a hospital or a health institution. The paper aims to investigate and test the ability of ‘healing gardens’ to contribute to the aim of promoting sustainable landscape. A comparative analytical study is to be conducted between the principles of sustainable landscape and the principles of healing gardens; aiming to prove and define the efficiency of healing gardens as a deep form of sustainable landscape.
Notes:
(Introducing Healing Gardens as a deep form of Sustainable Landscape)