According to Wikipedia, Clare Cooper Marcus is a prominent educator in landscape architecture and architecture and a pioneer in the field of social issues in housing, open space design, and healing landscapes. Clare Cooper Marcus was born in 1934 and raised in a north London suburb. She received her undergraduate degree in historical geography from University College, London and a Masters in urban and cultural Geography from University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She returned to England to teach cartography at the University of Sheffield, and worked as urban planner at the Ministry of Housing and London County Council. She returned to the US and earned a second Masters in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley in 1965. She participated in counter-culture movement in the 1960s at Berkeley, joining in the student strikes, and agitating for free speech. She was inspired by the writings of Catherine Bauer Wurster on housing programs and Jane Jacobs on urban place-making.
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Published Works
People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space (1997) (607)
Healing gardens : therapeutic benefits and design recommendations (1999) (508)
House As a Mirror of Self : Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home (1995) (450)
Housing as if people mattered : site design guidelines for medium-density family housing (1986) (205)
Therapeutic Landscapes: An Evidence-Based Approach to Designing Healing Gardens and Restorative Outdoor Spaces (2013) (190)
Why don't landscape architects perform more POEs? [letters] (2008) (2)
For burn patients, a place to heal: a Portland, Oregon, burn center creates the first healing garden in the nation for burn patients (2008) (2)
Hospital Oasis Through a participatory design process, a failed Tommy Church garden in San Francisco is reconfigured as an exemplary therapeutic landscape (2001) (2)
Unexpected Company: A redesigned urban square attempts to serve the needs of Oakland's homeless community and downtown office workers (2003) (2)
Healing Havens Two hospital gardens in Portland, Oregon, win awards for therapeutic values (2003) (2)
The Future of Urban Open Space (1989) (1)
Can There Be Too Much Seating? A day observing Jacob Javits Plaza reveals many seats, few takers (2000) (1)
