Historical data have shown that the

Historical data have shown that the design of the spaces around hospitals was an important consideration in ensuring that patients could feel comfortable, and that landscape design played a very important role [10]. The notion of a healing space has its roots back to ancient Greece. Temples such as the sanctuary at Epidaurus were built for the god Asclepius, where ill people went in the hope of having dreams where he would reveal the cures for ailments [11]. Since the Middle Ages, hospitals within monasteries used the monastery gardens as areas for therapy and healing [12]. The patients’ rooms had a view of the hospital gardens, which could provide the In contrast to that, American hospitals in the 17th century were offering bad environments for their patients. Buildings were small, rooms had no windows, there were no gardens and the treatment of psychopathic patients included the “tying of patients on piles” or the use of a type of “gallows” [13]