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GARDEN CITY CONCEPT–SIR EBENEZER HOWARD…

GARDEN CITY MOST POTENT


PLANNING MODEL IN WESTERN
URBAN PLANNING.
•CREATED BY EBENEZER HOWARD IN
1898 TO SOLVE URBAN AND RURAL
PROBLEMS.
•HOWARD READ WIDELY,
INCLUDING EDWARD BELLAMY'S 1888
UTOPIAN NOVEL, LOOKING
BACKWARD, AND HENRY GEORGE'S
ECONOMIC TREATISE, PROGRESS AND
POVERTY, AND THOUGHT MUCH
ABOUT SOCIAL ISSUES. HE DISLIKED
THE WAY MODERN CITIES WERE
BEING DEVELOPED AND THOUGHT
PEOPLE SHOULD LIVE IN PLACES THAT
SHOULD COMBINE THE BEST ASPECTS
OF BOTH CITIES AND TOWNS.
THE CONCEPT
•GARDEN CITY – AN IMPRESSIVE
DIAGRAM OF THE THREE
MAGNETS NAMELY THE TOWN
MAGNET, THE COUNTRY MAGNET
WITH THEIR ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES AND THE THIRD
MAGNET WITH ATTRACTIVE
FEATURES OF BOTH TOWN AND
COUNTRY LIFE.
•NATURALLY PEOPLE PREFFERED
THE THIRD ONE NAMELY GARDEN
CITY.
CORE GARDEN CITY PRINCIPLES:
•STRONG COMMUNITY
•ORDERED DEVELOPMENT
•ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
THESE WERE TO BE ACHIEVED BY:
•UNIFIED OWNERSHIP OF LAND
TO PREVENT INDIVIDUAL LAND.
•SPECULATION AND MAXIMIZE
COMMUNTIY BENEFITS.
•CAREFUL PLANNING TO PROVIDE
GENEROUS LIVING AND WORKING
SPACE WHILE MAINTAINING
NATURAL QUALITIES.
•SOCIAL MIX AND GOOD
COMMUNITY FACILITIES.
•LIMIT TO GROWTH OF EACH
GARDEN CITY.
•LOCAL PARTICIPATION IN
DECISION ABOUT DEVELOPMENT.
AFFORDABILITY:
•HOWARD WANTED GARDEN CITY
FOR ALL INCOMES.
•MOST ORIGINALLY FOR THOSE OF
MODEST INCOMES.
•THERE ATTRACTIVNESS AS LIVING
ENVIRONMENTS HAS OFTEN
MADE THEM BECAME MORE
POPULAR WITH BETTER OFF
PEOPLE.
•IT IS AN IDEAL CITY INDUSTRY IS
BALANCED WITH AGRICULTURE,
HOUSING CAREFULLY
DISTRIBUTED, AND TRANSPORT
RATIONALISED.
•HOWEVER, THE 32,000
INHABITANTS OF THIS GARDEN
CITY ARE MORE MIXED, BY AGE,
OCCUPATION AND ABILITIES.
•ALONG WITH BRICKFIELDS,
FACTORIES AND MARKETS ARE
CHILDREN’S COTTAGE HOMES,
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS,
CONVALESCENT HOMES, ASYLUMS
FOR THE BLIND AND DEAF, AND
EVEN A FARM FOR EPILEPTICS.
THIS IS A CITY FOR THE STRONG
AND WEAK, AND WHERE THE
WEAK GROW IN STRENGTH.
APPLICATION
LETCHWORTH, ENGLAND, UK
•LETCHWORTH – 35MILES FROM
LONDON.
•LAND OF 3822 ACRES.
•RESERVED GREEN BELT – 1300
ACRES.
•DESIGNED FOR MAXIMUM OF
35OOO POPULATION.
•IN 30 YEARS – DEVELOPED WITH
15000 POPULATION AND 150
SHOPS, INDUSTRIES.
•WELWYN CITY IS A TOWN
WITHIN THE WELWYN
HATFIELD BOROUGH
OF HERTFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND.
•PLANNED BY LOUIS DE
SOISSONS 1921
•WELWYN GARDEN CITY WAS THE
SECOND GARDEN CITY IN
ENGLAND (FOUNDED 1920) AND
ONE OF THE FIRST NEW
TOWNS (DESIGNATED 1948).
•IT IS UNIQUE IN BEING BOTH A
GARDEN CITY AND A NEW TOWN
AND EXEMPLIFIES THE PHYSICAL,
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PLANNING
IDEALS OF

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