Nothing Gained By Overcrowding How The Garden City Type Of Development May Benefit Both Owner And Occupier Primary Source Edition

Author : Raymond Unwin
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ISBN 13 : 9781332225170
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Nothing Gained by Overcrowding written by Raymond Unwin and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nothing Gained by Overcrowding: How the Garden City Type of Development May Benefit Both Owner and Occupier The Garden City movement, as the name implies, stands for a more harmonious combination of city and country, dwelling house and garden. The rapid growth of towns and cities during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, due to the organisation and concentration of industries, took place without any proper regard being shown for health, convenience or beauty in the arrangement of the town, without any effort to give that combination of building with open space which is necessary to secure adequate light and fresh air for health, adequate un-built-on ground for convenience, or adequate parks and gardens for the beauty of the city. Many attempts and proposals had been made to conteract this evil, but it was only after Mr. Ebenezer Howard had put forward the bold proposal to build a city on new lines, and with his supporters actually commenced to carry out that proposal, and only after Mr. Horsfall had explained what was being done to regulate the growth of towns in Germany that the public realised either the extent of the evil or the possibility of the remedy. Mr. Howard's suggestions included then the proper planning and limiting of a town, so as to keep it always within reasonable touch of open country; this may be called the larger aspect of the question; but they also included the proper arrangement of the individual buildings and the limitation of the amount of building in relation to the area of open space, and this may be called the detailed aspect of the question. What is meant by the founding of a new Garden City is now fairly generally understood, but it is perhaps too often assumed that the Garden City principle is only applicable where it is possible to start a new and entirely independent town right away in the country. Mr. Howard in his book recognised that it is not possible to regulate the aggregations of population in such a way that there shall be only detached towns of a limited size scattered about independently of one another. He fully recognised that one such town having reached the prescribed limits might need to provide for the development all round it of subsidiary towns at a short distance, intimately connected with it; that, in fact there might be developed a federated group of towns recognising one general centre. It is important to regard this principle as forming a constituent part of the Garden City movement because of its applicability to existing towns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.