11-07-2014, 07:47 AM
Garden City concept
Idea of ‘Garden City’ by Sir Ebenezer Howard an impressive diagram of The Three Magnets namely the town magnet, country magnet with their advantages and disadvantages and the third magnet with attractive features of both town and country life. Naturally people preferred the third one namely Garden City. It made a deep impression in the field of town planning.
• A town designed for healthy living and industry.
• Town of a size that makes possible a full measure of social life, but not larger
• Land will remain in a single ownership of the community or held in trust for the community.
• Not a colony, but a complete working city of population about 30,000
• A large central park containing public buildings
• Central park surrounded by a shopping street
• Central park and shopping street are surrounded by dwellings in all directions – at density of 12 families / acre
• The outer circle of factories and industries
• The whole is surrounded by a permanent green belt of 5000 acres
• The town area is of about 1000 acres
In 1899, the garden city association was formed.
In 1903 – Letch worth started, 35 miles from London, town area: about 500 acres, designed for 35,000 persons, 3,000 acres of green belt. By 1947 it had about 16,000 populations and about 100 factories.
In 1920 – Welwyn started, 2400 acres, 40000 persons design capacity. By 1947, it had about 18,000 population and 70 factories.
By keeping the land in single ownership, the possibility of speculation and overcrowding would be eliminated and the increment of value created by the community in the industrial and commercial (shops) sets would be preserved for it-self.
It was a thorough going experiment based on middle-class consumers cooperation
Idea of ‘Garden City’ by Sir Ebenezer Howard an impressive diagram of The Three Magnets namely the town magnet, country magnet with their advantages and disadvantages and the third magnet with attractive features of both town and country life. Naturally people preferred the third one namely Garden City. It made a deep impression in the field of town planning.
• A town designed for healthy living and industry.
• Town of a size that makes possible a full measure of social life, but not larger
• Land will remain in a single ownership of the community or held in trust for the community.
• Not a colony, but a complete working city of population about 30,000
• A large central park containing public buildings
• Central park surrounded by a shopping street
• Central park and shopping street are surrounded by dwellings in all directions – at density of 12 families / acre
• The outer circle of factories and industries
• The whole is surrounded by a permanent green belt of 5000 acres
• The town area is of about 1000 acres
In 1899, the garden city association was formed.
In 1903 – Letch worth started, 35 miles from London, town area: about 500 acres, designed for 35,000 persons, 3,000 acres of green belt. By 1947 it had about 16,000 populations and about 100 factories.
In 1920 – Welwyn started, 2400 acres, 40000 persons design capacity. By 1947, it had about 18,000 population and 70 factories.
By keeping the land in single ownership, the possibility of speculation and overcrowding would be eliminated and the increment of value created by the community in the industrial and commercial (shops) sets would be preserved for it-self.
It was a thorough going experiment based on middle-class consumers cooperation
