The Art of Building a Garden City

Over a century after the Garden City movement began, the nation is still

dealing with inadequate housing and huge social inequalities. Before

exploring, in Chapter 6, the role of new garden cities in addressing these

issues, this chapter looks at the roots of some of the contemporary challenges

in Britain: the housing crisis, public health and climate change. While

Chapter 3 outlined how new towns, and new communities more generally,

have fallen in and out of favour over the past 70 years, this chapter looks at

some of the social, economic and environmental drivers during the same

period, setting the scene for how new garden cities can be part ...