The three maps illustrate the major developments that Queen Mary Hospital has gone through since its building in 1960.
Overall, it is evident form the maps that the number of facilities has increased since 1960 with a cancer center, a pharmacy, and a nursing school as an addition to the original hospital and parking zone. While these areas have been introduced, the shopping center, and the farmland have been demolished. In terms of scaling, the size of the cancer center, which was constructed in 1980, enlarged by the year 2000. The nursing school and car park have both dramatically decreased while the pharmacy and the hospital stayed at the same spot in the exact size they have been since 1980. Even though Queen Mary Hospital experienced multiple changes throughout the span of four decades, the overall proportion and location hasn’t changed.
In 1960, the layout of Queen Mary Hospital contained a main road on the far north stretching from the shopping center to the hospital. There were in total of 4 facilities back then along with a farmland and a car park to the hospital and the shopping mall. Each spot shared an equal amount of space taking a quarter of Queen Mary Hospital.
In 1980, the area introduced a cancer center, a nursing school and a pharmacy replacing the original shopping center and the farmland. The size of the hospital and the parking lot haven’t changed but the new nursing school took up the whole space where the previous farmland once was located. The cancer center and the pharmacy shared a quarter of the whole layout.
Despite the major changes, the main road was untouched and remained on the same spot it was two decades ago.