Garden City Movement
The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and agriculture. (wiki)
Further reading:
- The German Garden City Movement (1902-1931)
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Asmara | "The plan is also an early example of the implementation of urban zoning principles, championed by the contemporaneous Garden City Movement." | |
| Berlin Modernism Housing Estates | Gartenstadt Falkenberg | |
| Champagne | "On the Saint-Nicaise Hill in Reims, the cluster comprises the Champagne Houses, their underground cellars and the workers' garden-city of Chemin Vert." (AB Ev) - Georges Charbonneaux wanted to build a garden city based on the English model theorized by Ebenezer Howard. At the end of the war, in 1919 he began building a garden city of 617 houses, with exceptional social and cultural facilities for the time. (Nomination file, p. 110-112) | |
| Modernist Kaunas | "Žaliakalnis .. was developed as a garden city residential area" (AB ev) | |
| Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin | For example, in France, the first garden city, which was built in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coal mining basin from 1904, offered up a new way of looking at housing for workers (see link) | |
| Pampulha | "The Pampulha Modern Ensemble was the centre of visionary urban design for part of a ‘Garden City’ promoted by a city administration who were responding to emerging international ideas" (AB ev) | |
| Rabat | It is emblematic of rational land use ... through the use of a planted environment drawing on the European 'garden city' concept (AB ev) | |
| Rjukan / Notodden | Notodden: "The housing layout reflects garden city ideals ..." (AB ev) | |
| Saltaire | Saltaire is an outstanding and well preserved example of a mid 19th century industrial town, the layout of which was to exert a major influence on the development of the "garden city" movement. (OUV) | |
| White City of Tel-Aviv | It was conceived as a 'garden city', but with a more urban character than those built earlier. (AB ev) |
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