The art of building a garden city : designing new communities for the 21st century / Kate Henderson, Katy Lock, Hugh Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henderson, Kate (Chief Executive of the Town and Country Planning Association), author.

Lock, Katy, author.

Ellis, Hugh, Dr., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Garden cities--Great Britain.

Garden cities.

City planning--Great Britain.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : RIBA Publishing, part of RIBA Enterprises Ltd, [2017]

Summary:

The Art of Building a Garden City is a well-researched guide to the history of the garden city movement and the delivery of a new generation of communities for the 21st Century. Bringing together key findings from the TCPA's campaign work, and drawing on lessons from the first garden cities, the new towns programme and other large-scale developments, it identifies what steps need to be taken in order to deliver the highest standards of design and place making today.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Copyright; Title; Contents; Foreword; Sponsors; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; INTRODUCTION; PART 1 LEARNING FROM THE PAST; 1 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE UTOPIAN TRADITION; 16th Century: Thomas More's Utopia; 17th Century: Land and Freedom; 18th & Early 19th Century: The New Industrial Age; Late 19th Century: The Arts and Crafts Movement; Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City Vision; 2 THE GARDEN CITIES; Letchworth: The World's First Garden City; The Impact of the First World War; Welwyn Garden City: Howard's Second Experiment; Lessons From the Garden Cities

A Nation on the Edge of Change3 NEW TOWN UTOPIA; Postwar Britain; Osborn's Patient Campaign; Planning the New Towns; Designing the New Towns; Living in the New Towns; Paying for the New Towns; The End of the New Towns Programme; Lessons from the New Towns; After the New Towns; 4 FROM NEW TOWNS TO ECO-TOWNS; Private Sector New Towns; 'Do-it-Yourself' New Towns; Towards Sustainable Communities; Eco-Towns; Back to the Future

from Eco-Towns to Garden Cities; 5 TODAY'S CHALLENGES; The Housing Crisis; Public Health; Climate Change; Facing the Future

6 WHY NEW GARDEN CITIES ARE PART OF THE SOLUTIONWhat's in a Name? The Battle of the Garden City 'Brand'; The Role of New Garden Cities in Contemporary Public Policy; Political Support for New Garden Cities; Key Criticisms of the Garden City Approach; Towards a Shared Vision for Tomorrow; PART 2 DELIVERING THE FUTURE; 7 THE GARDEN CITY PRINCIPLES; What are the Garden City Principles; A Framework for Good Place-making; Applying the Principles to New Development; 8 LOCATION AND CONSENT; Criteria for Locating New Garden Cities; The Government's Current Approach; Recommended Approach

The Reality in 20169 FINANCE AND DELIVERY; The Financial Foundation of New Garden Cities; Capturing and Sharing the Uplift in Land Values; Capturing Land Values; Unlocking 'Patient' Investment; 10 LONG-TERM STEWA RDSHIP; What is Long-Term Stewardship?; Who Benefits?; Who Should Take on a Stewardship Role?; Implementing Long-Term Stewardship; 11 DESIGN AND PLACE-MAKING; The Garden City Design Ethic; Urban-design Principles for New Garden Cities; Making it Happen

The Masterplan; Making it Happen

Good Design; An Opportunity to Offer Something Better; 12 CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY

The Garden City OpportunityKey Considerations for Creating Climate-resilient Garden Cities; Steps for Developing a Renewable-energy Strategy; 13 HOMES FOR ALL; National Housing Policy; How to Achieve Homes for All; A Call for Ambition and a Long-Term View; 14 ART AND CULTURE; I'd Love to Live There!

Why Art and Culture Matter; Enabling the Arts and Culture to Thrive; Making it Happen; CONCLUSION; References; Index; Picture Credits

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-70147-6

1-000-70025-9

0-429-34649-2

9780429346491

OCLC:

1112372814