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The United Kingdom planning movement was ledby Frederick Law Olmstead and he theorized theGarden City Planning. Garden cities were in-tended to be planned, self-contained communitiessurrounded by "greenbelts" (parks), containingproportionate areas of residences, industry andagriculture.

His idealised garden city would house 32,000 peo-ple on a site of 6,000 acres (2,400 ha), planned ona concentric pattern with open spaces, publicparks and six radial boulevards, 120 ft (37 m)wide, extending from the centre. The garden citywould be self-sufficient and when it reached fullpopulation, another garden city would be developed nearby. Howard envisaged a cluster of several gardencities as satellites of a central city of 50,000 people, linked by road and rail.

The first garden city was implemented in Letchworth, England with Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin asplanners.

FEU-IARFA SY 2012-2013 Urban and Regional Planning Architect Marie Grace A. Patadlas

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Garden City Movement

By Sir Ebenezer Howard in 1898

LETCHWORTH – First Garden City in

UK Letchworth Planners – 

Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin