Garden City
田園都市 / 1898– / Layout / Modern Architecture
Howard's diagrammed proposal for self-contained towns of planned population joining the advantages of town and country. The concentric diagram materialized at Letchworth and became the template for suburbs and new towns worldwide.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Concentric diagrams
- Separation by green belt
- Planned population
- Work near home
Best used for
- Setting the frame of a new residential district from green space first
- Proposing regional plans built on jobs near homes and a capped population
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Draw the scheme as concentric rings, zone names and populations equal in size
- Composition
- Public buildings at the center, industry outside, housing and farmland between
- Material
- Treat the green belt as a building material, fixing width and planting first
- Caution
- Borrowing only the concentric picture while dropping the green belt and the population ceiling leaves a leafy subdivision with no self-sufficiency left.
- Further study
- Ebenezer Howard / Letchworth and Welwyn / its influence on Den-en-chōfu in Japan
Related entries
- Arts and Crafts (アーツ・アンド・クラフツ)Editorially linked for a useful contrast.Compare Garden City and Arts and Crafts
- International Style (インターナショナル・スタイル)Same Modern Architecture lineage.Compare Garden City and International Style
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