
Kate Henderson, Katy Lock, Hugh Ellis
The Art of Building a
Garden City
Designing new communities for the 21
st
Century
The Garden City is one of Britain’s
greatest contributions to the ever-evolving
international debate about how to plan
and create urban communities. Rooted
in the English 18th century picturesque
tradition, with its veneration of nature,
the Garden City provided a utopian ideal
for urban living and soon became – and
remains – a most relevant model for the
creation of healthy, happy, well-balanced,
self-sustaining and beautiful environments
in which homes, workplaces, parkland and
gardens can exist in mutually-supportive
harmony ...