Article: Back to the future--the Garden City centenary: Mervyn Miller looks back on a hundred years of Letchworth Garden City, and forward to the lessons that the century-old paradigm for community planning still has to offer for the new settlements of the future.(Letchworth Garden City)

Article: Howard's sub-urban horror: one hundred years on from the start of ...
Town and Country Planning;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... work, for there has been no institutional framework to accommodate them. It would need a new model based on the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation to intervene in land and services. The bits are all there. Howard--who believed at one ...

Article: Council backing for Garden City plan.(News Local)
Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England);  November 24, 2003 ;     506 words ... ... said Cllr Lowes. * Acklam Garden City was the first council housing ... the views of the pioneer of the garden city movement, Sir Ebenezer Howard ... ideas were used in the creation of Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City.

Article: Garden City futures.
Town and Country Planning;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... offering listed building and conservation protection. Letchworth Garden City, for example, has undergone regeneration and ... these changes Stuart Kenny, Director General of Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, believes the "relationship ...

Article: Letchworth: the First Garden City.
Town and Country Planning;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... plan--namely, the idea that garden city residents should benefit directly ... the outset to be too radical for garden city investors to contemplate, there ... 1995 with the formation of the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation. A unique ...

Article: At Fallon Village, Dublin revisits garden city ...
California Planning & Development Report;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... England, the most famous examples are Letchworth Garden City (built in 1903) and Welwyn Garden City (1920), both developed by the social ... had both physical and moral benefits for garden city dwellers. As in Letchworth and Welwyn ...

Article: Letchworth: the First Garden City. (A Greenfield ...
The Architectural Review;  January 1, 2003 ;     585 words ... ... enthusiasm of the pioneers. Half a century later, First Garden City Limited was actually in profit, and a group of speculators ... win control. Miller tells the complex story of the Letchworth Garden City Corporation Act of 1962, designed to ensure that ...

Article: How green is my eco-town: to the urban planner the opportunity to ...
Green Places;  November 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... motor car. Much of the 'New Town' landscape is wasted on unkempt buffer zones and pointless amenity greens. Letchworth Garden City's quaintness has a surprising contemporary relevance, in contrast to the poor quality which pervades its prematurely ...