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Overview:
Background
Definition
Ebenezer Howard
The Three magnets
Features
Applications
Definition:
A Garden city is a self sufficient
city in which the attractive
features of both rural life and
city life are combined
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Howard Definition:
A garden city is a town designed for
healthy living and industry; of size
that makes possible of full measure
of social life, but not larger;
surrounded by a rural belt; the
whole of the land being in public
ownership or held in trust for
community
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Garden city NY
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Founded in 1903
Its development inspired another garden
city welwyn, and other small towns
Barry Barkers and Rymoned Unwin were
architects
16km square area for buiding
Natural beauty was mantained
1905 & 1908 Cheap Cottage Exhibition was
heled to build inexpensive housing.
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Letchworth today
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A comparison
S.no feature
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Dependence
Garden cities
Self-sufficient unit
Satellite towns
Depend on the
parent city
Gardens
Green belt
Surrounded by green
belt
Situated outside
green belt of
the parent city
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Industries
Rapid transit
arrangement
Permitted
Not necessary
Not permitted
Necessary in
the form of
local trains and
buses
zoning
Essential
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