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An attempt at a garden city: Zlín in Czechia (architect: František Lydie Gahura) The Workers Academy in Kauniainen, the garden city of Finland [26] Belgium. In Belgium the Garden City movement started early, [27] but took roots in the 1910s, directly connected to industrial development, especially that of the coal mines. [28]
The localities in the following lists have been developed directly as garden cities or their development has been heavily influenced by the garden city movement.Detailed information is collected and provided by World Garden Cities, a knowledge platform created by Museum Het Schip in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Interested in the new social programmes aimed at improving the lot of the underprivileged, he built the Reine Astrid maternity hospital in Charleroi (1936–1937) and the Cité de l'Enfance in Marcinelle, an orphanage conceived as a garden city.He built and supported the construction of collective housing like the Albert residence on avenue ...
The Garden City Velodrome was a velodrome located in Antwerp, ... The first event held was the finish of the Tour of Belgium on 12 August 1919. On 9-10 August 1920, ...
Garden Cities of To-morrow is a book by the British urban planner Ebenezer Howard. When it was published in 1898, the book was titled To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. In 1902, it was reprinted as Garden Cities of To-Morrow. The book gave rise to the garden city movement and is very important in the field of urban design. [1] [2]
Charles Compton Reade (4 May 1880 – 28 October 1933) was a New Zealand town planner who supported the garden city movement of the early twentieth century. Born in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1880, Reade became the major figure in disseminating garden city ideas in Australia. Reade saw the evils of inner city slums while working as a ...
Sir Ebenezer Howard OBE (29 January 1850 [1] – 1 May 1928) [2] was an English urban planner and founder of the garden city movement, known for his publication To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898), the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature.
A greater city movement refers to various reform efforts—both contemporary and historical—to expand the municipal boundaries of a primate central city to incorporate all, or part, of the surrounding metropolitan population. Historically, greater city movements were proposed as a solution to the problem of metropolitan planning and ...