Garden Cities
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Garden city movement
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Ebenezer Howard 's 3 magnets diagram which addressed the question 'Where will the people go? ', the choices being 'Town ', 'Country ' or 'Town-Country '
The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and agriculture.
Inspired by the Utopian novel Looking Backward and Henry George 's work Progress and Poverty, Howard published his book To-morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1898 (which was reissued in 1902 as Garden Cities of To-morrow). His idealised garden city would house 32,000 people on a site of 6,000 acres (2,400 ha), planned on a concentric pattern with open spaces, public parks and six radial boulevards, 120 ft (37 m) wide, extending from the centre. The garden city would be self-sufficient and when it reached full population, another garden city would be developed nearby. Howard envisaged a cluster of several garden cities assatellites of a central city of 50,000 people, linked by road and rail.[1] Contents [hide] * 1 Early development * 2 Garden cities * 3 Garden suburbs * 4 Legacy * 5 See also * 5.1 Developments influenced by the Garden city movement * 5.2 Related urban design concepts * 6 References * 7 Bibliography |
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Early development[edit]
Howard’s To-morrow: a peaceful path to real reform sold enough copies to result in a second edition, Garden Cities of To-morrow. This success provided him the support necessary to pursue the chance to bring his vision into reality. Howard believed that all people agreed the overcrowding and deterioration of cities was one of the troubling issues of their time. He quotes a number of
Garden city movement
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ebenezer Howard 's 3 magnets diagram which addressed the question 'Where will the people go? ', the choices being 'Town ', 'Country ' or 'Town-Country '
The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and agriculture.
Inspired by the Utopian novel Looking Backward and Henry George 's work Progress and Poverty, Howard published his book To-morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1898 (which was reissued in 1902 as Garden Cities of To-morrow). His idealised garden city would house 32,000 people on a site of 6,000 acres (2,400 ha), planned on a concentric pattern with open spaces, public parks and six radial boulevards, 120 ft (37 m) wide, extending from the centre. The garden city would be self-sufficient and when it reached full population, another garden city would be developed nearby. Howard envisaged a cluster of several garden cities assatellites of a central city of 50,000 people, linked by road and rail.[1] Contents [hide] * 1 Early development * 2 Garden cities * 3 Garden suburbs * 4 Legacy * 5 See also * 5.1 Developments influenced by the Garden city movement * 5.2 Related urban design concepts * 6 References * 7 Bibliography |
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Early development[edit]
Howard’s To-morrow: a peaceful path to real reform sold enough copies to result in a second edition, Garden Cities of To-morrow. This success provided him the support necessary to pursue the chance to bring his vision into reality. Howard believed that all people agreed the overcrowding and deterioration of cities was one of the troubling issues of their time. He quotes a number of
References: Rational planning[edit] Following the rise of empiricism during the industrial revolution, the rational planning movement (1890-1960) emphasized the improvement of the built environment based on key spatial factors