Hi Shere'e and all,
Sorry - this a brief explanation
The garden city principle is a way of living - a lifestyle if you like. The
town was designed and built from scratch to bring the best of country living
and town living together. The concept was developed by Ebenezer Howard at
the end of the C19th and Letchworth Garden City was founded in 1903 in an
attempt to improve the living and working conditions of people living in the
cities of the time. (Welwyn Garden City followed, then Hampstead Garden
Suburb etc) The idea was that people could live in a town with access to
their work, shops and community but also the countryside. The streets were
laid out to a plan from the town centre to the industrial area incorporating
some communal spaces (a large common, a park with paddling pool, town centre
garden etc) The houses would have space for everyone to have their own
garden to grow their own vegetables and have a few chickens etc. A
competition in 1903 for 'Cheap cottages' required the designers to build a
house for £150 (excluding land costs). Most of these are still standing
although they have been extended and modernised in most cases. In the early
days the 'pioneers' were seen rather as the hippies of their time and
people would take day trips from London to 'view' them and laugh at the
sandal wearing free thinkers!
We get many visitors from the architectural and town planning fields. Mostly
from Japan and Scandanavia but also from the USA where there are quite a few
'garden cities'.
If anyone is interested in further info see www.letchworthgc.com where you
get a history lesson and some general info on the town.
Nice place to live and work as the principles are continued to this day
although we are no longer a 'dry' town and actually have 3 pubs now!
Lynne
Baldock, North Herts, UK
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From: Shere'e [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 January 2008 17:53
To: Lynne Cumming; chat Arachne
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Tourist Office Enquiries
On Jan 4, 2008 9:33 AM, Lynne Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The best question is 'Where are the gardens?' We are the world's first
garden city and many people don't understand what that actually means and
expect vast expanses of maintained floral displays! We smile sweetly and
explain.
Lynne
Baldock, North Herts, UK
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Ok. Color me silly. It may be the US vs UK interpretation of words but I
would have asked the exact same question. Could you explain?
Shere'e
Seattle, WA USA
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