The Art of Building a Garden City

Community assets such as parks, community centres and public

transport are vital elements of high-quality, attractive places, but

management arrangements and long-term funding to maintain them are

often considered only as afterthoughts to new developments. The garden

city movement built on a long and rich history of community rights,

ownership and asset management in the UK (see Chapter 1), and today

Letchworth remains a great example of how long-term stewardship can

work (Fig 10.01). Given the financial pressure on local-authority budgets,

community-stewardship approaches to managing facilities are now more

relevant than ever, and present an ...