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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
Space for social and community
development
Provision for social and community
development included locating community
facilities within a short walking distance
of homes and designing multifunctional
spaces (a school doubling up as a
community centre, for example). The
development corporations also made a
conscious eort to encourage participation
in the arts as part of community
development. This strength can be seen
in all three ‘waves’ of new towns (Figs 3.19
and 3.20).
Living in the New Towns
The new towns programme was pioneering
not only in the scale of its ambition but in
the spirit of the earliest new town settlers.
These people moved ...
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