The three maps illustrate how Queen Mary Hospital and its surrounding area transformed over a forty-year period from 1960 to 2000, with updates at twenty-year intervals.
Overall
, it can be easily noticed that not only did the size of the hospital remain unchanged, but Linking Words
also
the surrounding infrastructure underwent a significant transformation, with commercial buildings being replaced by healthcare-related facilities.
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To begin
with, during the 1960s, the layout consisted of four equally sized structures, including the hospital in the northeast, a car parking immediately behind it, a shopping centre in the northwest, following those, the farmland occupying the southwest corner. In the second map of the 1980s, notable changes had taken place; the shopping centre was replaced by two new facilities, which are a pharmacy adjacent to the hospital and a cancer centre beside it. Linking Words
Additionally
, the cultivated land was converted into a nursing school, representing a shift from commercial and agricultural to medical infrastructure. Linking Words
Finally
, since 2000, the area has undergone Linking Words
further
redevelopment, transforming into a more extensive hospital complex. Linking Words
As a result
, the cancer's location expanded considerably, taking up almost half of the total area, whilst the parking lot was reduced in size by half, making space for a nursing school.Linking Words