Gardens for a Broken World
As therapeutic landscapes become more mainstream, educator Daniel Winterbottom, FASLA, looks back and ahead.
By Jennifer Reut
Landscape Architecture Magazine
June 24, 2026
Excerpt:
LAM: I want to ask you about when you first published Therapeutic Gardens. What was the drive to publish it? There wasn’t a lot out there on this topic.
DANIEL WINTERBOTTOM: The first edition was a couple of things: One, it’s a collaboration between myself, a landscape architect, and my colleague Amy Wagenfeld, who’s an occupational therapist. And that collaboration you would think would be obvious, but there are not that many authored books with those disciplines collaborating. Occupational therapy brings a lot of science, and a lot of body understanding, to the game. I represent more of the design view of, how do you actually create responsive places, spaces that can meet the needs of a diverse population, depending on what their conditions are. The second thing is that a lot of the books previously, Clare Cooper Marcus’s in particular, were based on post-occupational studies, so it was really an analysis of existing gardens. At the time, quite frankly, there weren’t that many great [therapeutic] gardens because the movement was just emerging.
At the time of the book, the idea was to really look at some of the design issues, responses, and strategies. We also expanded it beyond the health care definers—most of Marcus’s work (Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations, 1999) was done in hospitals, and most of Martha M. Tyson’s (The Healing Landscape: Therapeutic Outdoor Environments, 1998) was done in hospitals—we looked much more broadly. We looked at community gardens in war zones, we looked at refugee camps, we looked at the AIDS crisis. Things had sort of widened and broadened in our mind and that needed to be addressed in a book.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/gardens-for-a-broken-world/
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