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Mr. David Ames: Letchworth - the first garden city utopia
- 2. The Heritage Foundation is a self funded charitable organisation reinvesting for the long term benefit of communities in Letchworth Garden City.
- 3. We support, fund and promote activities for Letchworth Garden City communities.
- 5. 1898 • Poor housing • Over crowding • High rents
- 8. What are Garden City Principles? ‘The advantages of the most energetic and active town life, with all the beauty and delight of the country, may be secured in perfect combination’ Ebenezer Howard – A Utopian vision?
- 9. ‘the provision of hygienic conditions of life for a considerable working population’ First Garden City Limited 1903
- 10. ‘whatever advantages the worker gains through living and working under the more wholesome conditions of the Garden City are not at the cost of his independence’ C B Purdom 1913
- 11. Utopia Through Design? • Spacious homes • Clean air • Access to food growing • Walkable neighbourhoods • Good quality working environments
- 12. Utopian Reality Master plan – key significance ‘promises to call together a community inspired with some ideal of what their city should be…which will have in its life something more worthy to be expressed in its architecture than mere self-centred independence and churlish disregard.’ Raymond Unwin
- 13. Barry Parker & Raymond Unwin
- 15. Workers Cottages
- 16. Occupation Good quality, healthy homes Parker’s Building Regulations In many cases, dominated by lower middle classes and not the low skilled labour they were intended for. Some issues of class based geography, was an accidental implication of the master plan.
- 17. Employment
- 18. ‘improvement of health and efficiency among people brought from London was most remarkable.’ WH Smith & Son 1911
- 19. Hijacked by the Middle Classes? ‘with magnetic force every fruit juice drinker, nudist, sandal wearer, sex maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist and feminist in England’. George Orwell – Road to Wigan Pier 1936
- 21. ‘half a day only once a year when we can meet as friends and throw off the veneer of iciness is almost a mockery’ 1909 Commentator
- 22. Post WWII 1950 – 70s •Growth in housing – as part of national housing crisis •CPO •Fight to Save to legacy
- 23. Letchworth Today – A Utopia?
- 25. Garden City Principles Community Ownership Long term Stewardship High quality design Houses with gardens Affordable homes Allotments Access to countryside Green spaces Local jobs Local food sourcing Transport Recreation Culture
- 26. Prosperity is shared Environment Social Economic Physical Income A self-funding charity re-investing in the Garden City.
- 27. Prosperity is shared Asset Value £128m Total Income £10m Property Income £7.8m
- 28. OUR CHARITABLE SERVICES through our charitable services and grant giving
- 29. The Garden City owns itself Governance Board of Management (9) Governors (30) Nominated (10) Elected (6) General (14)
- 30. Conclusions • Howard’s Garden City Principles can be linked to a utopian approach, addressing issues of the time • The reality of Letchworth was that the founding years were positive, but there was a fear of the working class by the middle classes • Today, the core Garden City Principles remain in Letchworth