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The Art of Building a Garden City
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The Art of Building a Garden City

by Kate Henderson, Katy Lock, Hugh Ellis
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
8h 5m
English
RIBA Publishing
Content preview from The Art of Building a Garden City
FOREWORD:
THE ART OF BUILDING
A GARDEN CITY
VII
Rt Hon Nick Raynsford
President of the Town and
Country Planning Association
We all know that Britain is facing an
acute housing crisis. We are not building
enough new homes, and too many of
those that are being built are simply not
aordable to those in need. But simply
increasing the output and improving the
aordability of new homes is not enough.
We have in the past, too often, allowed
quality to be subordinated to quantity
and we have not always given sucient
attention to place-making – creating
communities where people can thrive
and feel good about their surroundings.
Successful places also ...
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ISBN: 9781000700251