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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
New garden cities cannot be achieved without access to the right land,
in the right place, at the right price. The garden city pioneers and their
development companies were able to identify the desired agricultural
land, purchase it at auction and get on with building their utopia as
quickly as resources would allow.
Today, the procedure is far more complex. The process of identifying
the need for, and potential locations of, new garden cities (or, indeed,
any new community) takes place within a planning system informed
by development plans, and projects require planning approval through
a democratic consent process. In theory this should lead ...
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