"Twenty-three surgical patients assigned to rooms with windows looking out on a natural scene had shorter postoperative hospital stays, received fewer negative evaluative comments in nurses' notes, and took fewer potent analgesics." #GoodUrbanism 
If you want to put a price tag on that, remember that hospital services in the US costs $1.1 TRILLION a year and merely having a garden view cuts hospital stay time by on average 21%. Billions and billions in potential savings here.
Being able to see nature, trees, skies, greenery, cut painkiller and analgesics use by 49%. Considering the risks and complications by opioid overdoses there is a potential to save tens of thousands of lives needlessly cut short, every single year, in the US alone.
Photos are from one of the most beautiful hospitals I have ever visited, although these days it is wasted on a rather dull "design" museum. O tempora, o mores!
And the savings add up: 21% savings in hospitalization would mean that EACH BED in a typical U.S. hospital would have saved about $1 million from 2000-2020 with just a nice garden view. You get an awful lot of nice gardens for $1 million dollars.
So remember this thread the next time some sociopath goes off on how modern architecture is more "efficient" (in killing people yes) and "cheaper", and how traditional, human scaled organic architecture is too expensive. None of that true.
