Hospital gardens, one of the urban public outdoors, are located in the active spots of the city and are important as the image of the city. Hospitals will also be effective in quality of patient health and urban environment with their services. A well-designed hospital garden helps patients to feel good about themselves as well as shorten the healing process. Hospital gardens should be design comfortably according to the needs and desires of the users, create positive effects in physical and spiritual sense and create a social environment by saving both patients and employees from monotony. In this study, a total of 26 private and public hospital gardens in districts of Bursa city center (Osmangazi, Yildirim, Nilufer) were examined in detail. The evaluation of the landscape designs of the hospitals were done by scored method, and the success status were determined by five categories; space use, comfort and image, transportation, equipment and maintenance. As a result, it was identified that the landscape designs were successful with a range of 65-85 % in hospitals in Bursa city center, but some deficiency about designs, especially requirement of renovation and maintenance studies were detected. It was found that State hospitals were more successful than private hospitals. The landscape projects of hospitals should be absolutely needed and it was stated that creating spaces with landscape architects where patients and the staff can use are important.
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