The Art of Building a Garden City

since. But, as we will see, the dream was

cut short, and we would later learn that

there was a price to pay for delivering

at such speed and in a time of austerity.

Nevertheless, it provided many lessons

in place-making from which we still have

much to learn.

Osborn’s

Patient Campaign

The case for a programme of new towns

was actually made in the decade preceding

the war. By the mid-1930s, the Garden

Cities & Town Planning Association

(GCTPA) was increasingly frustrated

with the slow progress in housebuilding

(including at Letchworth and Welwyn)

and felt that there was clearly the need

for a comprehensive, strategic approach

to considering the ...