Class notes/September 22/Garden City

Early Chat
JAPA is a good journal for practicing planners in the United States
summer issue regarding density in the suburb which eminates from what we are talkinga bout today

City beautiful--monumental, asymmetrical, stunning (because they were celebrating the city in public spaces).

Place making applies to lots of different places
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Garden City

Contrasts from City Beautiful in that Garden City folks want to de-densify and City Beautiful folks do not.

• Decentralization
• how to blend city and country
• design elements
• five step lineage through the twentieth century

Ebeneezer Howard

• Appalled by slums in London
• publishes Garden City's of Tomorrow
• have the best of the country and the city
• garden in the center
  
• central city has specialized things, cultural programs
• ive outside with recreation and space
• green belt (city protected by acres and acres of agricultural land)
  
• connected by high speed rails

Raymond and His bro in law

• took the idea over
• brought it to the states
• Clarence Perry
• social worker
• neighborhood unit
• all from little Ebeneezer

Nothing Gained by Overcrowding
large sclae development
reorganization of streets
orientation of residential parcels
garnering open space

Barnett hires Parker and Luchen to make Hamstead Peak (name?)
Supposed to have low cost housing for the worker
so desireable that it pushed the prices up and it became middle and high income housing

Elwyn Garden City
Paid for by a Company
Front is retail
there are factories
series of neighborhoods flow off of central neighborhood
population cap (30,000)

Houses being built around war time to support the war effort
Americans see them and come home to reproduce them

In nyc one town had an agreement for common land but after the fourty year agreement was over

Louis Mumford, Clarence Perry
had seminars out in the country
Clarence was into the neighborhood unit

• thought it was the building block of new suburb
• Housing for the Machine Age
• Size of unit is determined by the size of the neighborhood school, the school will also be used as a community center
• hierarchy of streets
• big filter
• four neighborhood units can support corner store
• BIG POINT: seems to think there is a formula for creating a great society

It is super difficult to figure out how to pay for ideas because we have institutionalized ways of doing things.