Publications

2012  “Case Study” and “Design Principles” in Annie Pollock and Mary Marshall (Eds.), Designing Outdoor Spaces for People with Dementia, Greenwich, NSW, Australia: Hammond Care, and Stirling, UK: University of Stirling.

2011    “Planning for a Silent Minority: The Needs of Children for Outdoor Play, Access to Nature, and Independent Mobility” in Tigran Haas (Ed.), Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond: Rethinking Cities for the Future, New York: Rizzoli.

2010    “The Needs of Children in Contemporary Cities” in Stephen A. Goldsmith and Lynne Elizabeth (Eds.), What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs, Oakland: New Village Press.

2010    Iona Dreaming: The Healing Power of Place—A Memoir, Lake Worth, FL: Nicolas Hays Inc.

2009    “Healing Gardens in Hospitals,” Chinese Landscape Architecture, Vol. 25/163 and 164.

2009    “Patient-specific Healing Gardens,” World Health Design, Vol. 2, Issue 1,January.

2008    (with Robin Moore) “Healthy Planet, Healthy Childhood: Designing Nature into the Daily Spaces of Childhood” in Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life, (Eds.) Stephen R. Kellert, Judith H. Heerwagen, Martin L. Mador, New York: John Wiley & Sons.

2008    “Designing Hospital Landscapes,” Landscape Design, No. 59, April(Japan).

2008    “Shared Outdoor Space and Children’s Play” in A Place to Play (companion volume to Michigan television film, Where Do the Children Play?)

2008    “For Burn Patients, a Place to Heal,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Vol. 98, No. 4, April.

2008    “Alzheimer Garden Audit Tool” in Outdoor Environments for People with Dementia, (Eds.) Susan Rodiek, Benyamin Schwarz, New York: The Haworth Press, Inc.

2008    “Garden of the Family Life Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan” in Outdoor Environments for People with Dementia, (Eds.) Susan Rodiek, Benyamin Schwarz, New York: The Haworth Press, Inc.

2007    (with Marni Barnes, Eds.) Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations, New York: John Wiley & Sons. Chinese translation: Wu-Nan Book Inc., Taiwan.

2006    “Healing gardens — places for nature in health care” (with Terry Hartig), The Lancet. Special issue on Medicine and Creativity, Vol. 368, December.

2006    “Life Support: Creating a Prison Hospice Garden,” Frameworks (Alumni Magazine of College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley), October.

2006    Habitat et Nature: Du pragmatique au spirituel (Papers by Clare Cooper Marcus published 1970–2000, translated into French by Irène de Charrière), Gollion, Switzerland: Infolio.

2006    “Post occupancy evaluation,” in Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards, (Ed.) Len Hopper, New York: John Wiley & Sons.

2006    Forward to Susan Rodiek and Benyamin Schwarz (Eds.), The Role of the Outdoors in Residential Environments for Aging, New York: The Haworth Press, Inc.

2006    House as a Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home. Berwick, Maine: Nicolas-Hays (New Edition). Originally published 1995, Berkeley, CA, Conari Press.

2006    “Healing Gardens in Hospitals” in The Architecture of Hospitals, (Ed.) Cor Wagenaar, Rotterdam, The Netherlands: NAi Publishers.

2006    “Gardens as Treatment Milieu: Two Swedish gardens counteract the effects of stress,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Vol. 96, No. 5, May

2005    “Help with Healing,” Green Places (inc. Landscape Design, UK), Issue 20, November.

2005    “Good (Not So Clean) Fun:  Hamill Family Play Zoo encourages children to use their imaginations in adventure play,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Vol. 95, No. 12, December.

2005    “No Ordinary Garden: Alzheimer’s and other patients find refuge in a Michigan dementia-care facility,”  Landscape Architecture Magazine, Vol. 95, No. 3, March.

2004    “Critical Opinion: The Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital,” Landscape Australia, Vol. 26 (1), February.

2004    “The use and design of hospital courtyards,” HD: The Journal for Healthcare Design and Development, (UK), February.

2003    “Shared Outdoor Spaces and Community Life,” Places: A Quarterly Journal of Environmental Design, Vol. 15, No. 2.

2003    “Unexpected Company: A redesigned urban square attempts to serve the needs of Oakland’s homeless community and downtown office workers,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Vol. 93, No. 6, June.

2003    “Healing Havens: Two hospital gardens in Portland win awards for therapeutic values,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Vol. 93, No. 8, August.

2003    “A Still Imperfect Union: Appraising the redesign of San Francisco’s famous square,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Vol. 93, No. 12, December.

2002    “California Retro: The expansion of Chase Palm Park on Santa Barbara’s waterfront has provided a handsome addition to that city’s public space,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Vol. 92, No. 2, February.

2002    “Healing Gardens: What they are and how to create them,” Health Facilities Management magazine, May.

2001    “Hospital Oasis: Through a participatory design process, a failed Tommy Church garden in San Francisco is reconfigured as an exemplary therapeutic landscape,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Vol. 91, No. 10, October.

2001    “For Children Only: A London playground challenges preconceptions on which most American playgrounds are designed,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Vol. 91, No. 12, December.

2000    “Act of Healing: At the National AIDS Memorial Grove, restoring a landscape has helped comfort and restore those touched by AIDS,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Vol. 90, No. 11, November.

1999    Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations, Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes (Eds.), New York: John Wiley & Sons.

1998    People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space, Clare Cooper Marcus and Carolyn Francis (Eds.), New York: John Wiley & Sons, Revised 2ndEdition.

1995    Gardens In Healthcare Facilities: Uses, Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations, Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes, Martinez, Center for Health Design.