The document discusses Ebenezer Howard's garden city concept, which aimed to address problems with both urban and rural living. The garden city model proposed self-contained communities of around 32,000 residents surrounded by greenbelt, with different zones including a central park. The concept emphasized strong communities, planned growth, and environmental quality. Howard published his ideas in 1898, and the garden city movement influenced planning around the world. Canberra, Australia is cited as one city that strongly embraced garden city principles in its design in the 1920s.
2. GARDEN CITY CONCEPT
Given by Ebenezer Howard
He analyzed the reason for people to move to city or country side
This concept attempts to reduce and solve social problems
The garden city consist for different zones, street types and green
The core in central park, surrounded by a commercial, cultural and
administrative zone.
To avoid problems which occurs in city expansion, the concept limits the city
max population to 32000 people
Thus new city has to be found in a reasonable distance of 7km. So the cities
are well connected
3. GARDEN CITY- sir Ebenezer Howard
Garden city most potent planning
model in western urban planning
Created by Ebenezer howard in 1898
to solve urban and rural problems
Source of many key planning ideas
during 20th century
4. Howard wrote(1880) Tomorrow: A
Peaceful path to social Reform.
This work was reissued in 1902 as
garden cities of tomorrow
The founder of the English garden-
city movement , which influenced
through the world.
This book offered a vision of towns
free of slumps and enjoying the
benefits of both town (such as
opportunity, amusement and high
wages) and country (such as
beauty, fresh air and low rents )
5.
6. The concept
Garden city – an impressive diagram
of THE THREE MAGNETS namely the
town magnet, country with their
advantages and disadvantages and
the third magnet with attractive
features of both town and country
life
Naturally people preferred the third
one namely garden city
7.
8. The concept
Core garden city principles
Strong community
Ordered development
Environmental quality
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14. The Canberra Garden City Experience
Canberra, where the garden city
influence became most apparent in the
1920s, was destined to be Australia’s
best expression of the garden city ideal
… (Freestone 1989:115)
