ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 explores healthy place-making from a practical perspective, looking at community gardens as part of the concept of “health care as a community collective” in providing active and passive spaces to support health and well-being, exploring ways that gardens can facilitate individual and collective journeys to health and recovery. Practical and theoretical insights are developed through case studies of community gardens in Birmingham and the West Midlands, UK focusing on Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, which has specifically taken its health care model beyond buildings to embrace the surrounding landscape and Jasmine Road Community Garden, Dudley, which has enabled local residents to collectively develop a site supporting community and individual well-being.
