Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Garden city movement:
In 19th century Ebenezer Howard innovated the idea of Garden City Movement in England. He came up with that idea because at that time people started to move from countries to cities. Therefore cities become crowded and polluted.  In his idea both urban and rural areas has their own quality.Urban area has social life and rural area has nature.His garden city idea was the combination of both of these in order to improve the economic situation and health  (ACT Planning and land Authority 2008). In his idea garden city is a circular town fill with residential area,school,stores,hospital and all things to be independent, surrounded by green area as a place for agriculture . Population could reach to 32000 in a 2400Ha field.When one town is fill whit that population another town will be created. His innovation first used in Letchworth (1903) and after that in Welwyn both in England. After that some areas in Unite States and Australia inspired by that idea.Canberra and Suburb of Adelaide are the examples of garden city in Australia (Department of City and Regional Planning 2005).
source:http://urbanplanning.library.cornell.edu

sourse:http://urbanplanning.library.cornell.edu

Canberra

Sources:ACT Planning and land Authority 2008,Garden city value and principles,accessed 6May 2014,<http://www.actpla.act.gov.au>

Department of City and Regional Planning,GARDEN CITIES OF TO-MORROW,accessed by 6May 2014,<http://urbanplanning.library.cornell.edu>

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