Identifier: gardencitiesinth01senn (find matches)
Title: Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Sennett, Alfred Richard
Subjects: Garden cities
Publisher: London, Bemrose
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tistic almost ascheaply as it may be made hideous. What appliesto interiors applies—though rather less forcibly—tothe exteriors. Garden City authorities and theirarchitects, therefore, have it in their power to do twothings—to make the cities hideous or to make thembeautiful. Which will they do ? Commercialinstinct will decide, if artistic feeling should be atfault. In these days it would be false economy tobuild an ugly town. Artistic treatment in thisrelation would prove the best investment. I feel that the practical utility of the remarks Iventure to make under the heading of this chaptermight be enhanced were I to make them directlyreferable to the actual site purchased for the erectionof the First Garden City. This has already beendone by a company promoted and brought intobeing through the persistent efforts and exertionsof that most laudatory coterie of well-doing in-dividuals—at first a very small but happily deter-mined and ever-increasing band—the Garden City 124 B
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124 C DESCRIPTION OF BUCKINGHAMS PLAN OF AMODEL TOWN FOR A TEMPERANCE COMMUNITY OF ABOUT10,000 INHABITANTS. A. Outer Square of 1,000 Houses and Gardens, 20 feet frontage, 100 feet deep. B. Second Square : Covered Arcade for Workshops, 100 feet wide. C. Third Square: 560 Houses and Gardens, 28 feet frontage, 130 feet deep.I). Fourth Square : Covered Arcade for Retail Bazaars, 100 feet wide. E. Fifth Square: 296 Houses and Gardens, 38 feet frontage, 160 feet deep. F. Sixth Square: Covered Arcade for Winter Promenade, 100 feet wide. G. Seventh Square: 120 Houses and Gardens, 54 feet frontage, 200 feet deep.H. Central Square: 24 Mansions and Gardens, 80 feet frontage, 250 feet deep.I. 5 Churches or Places of Public Worship, 200 feet by 130.J. Library below and Gallery of the Fine Arts and Antiquities above.K. University below and Museum of Natural History above.Kk. Hall for Public Meetings below, and Concert-Room above.L. 12 Dining-Halls below, and Drawing-Rooms above, 100 feet by 65.M. 1

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