town planning and architecture

TOWN PLANNING
AND ARCHITECTURE
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TOWN PLANNING ACT
 Bombay Town planning act(1915)

 The idea of development plan was flourished in this act

 This was soon followed by Madras Town Planning Act in

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1920

 The first comprehensive Act requiring the preparation of

development plans and authorieing its enforcement is
the Bombay Town and Country Planning Act,1954

 This came into effect on 1957

 It started a new way of thinking for systematic planning

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GARDEN CITY
MOVEMENT

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HISTORY
 Concept of “Garden City” was
introduced by ,Ebenezer Howard
(London,1898) in his small

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remarkable book “To-morrow”(later
re-published as “Garden cities of
To-morrow”.

 He wanted to design an alternative

for overcrowded and polluted
industrial cities of that century.

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 His solution centred in developing
smaller “garden cities” ,linked by

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canal and transit and covered by a
permanent green belt.
 He founded the Garden City
Association (later known as the
Town and Country Planning
Association or TCPA), which
created First Garden City, Ltd. in
1899 to create the garden city
of Letchworth and Welywn
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FEATURES OF GARDEN CITY OF HOWARD
 accommodate 32,000 people

 6,000 acres (2,400 ha),

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 planned on a concentric pattern with open spaces, public parks and
six radial boulevards, 120 ft (37 m) wide, extending from the centre.

 The garden city would be self-sufficient and when it reached full

population, another garden city would be developed nearby.

 Howard envisaged a cluster of several garden cities as satellites of a

central city of 50,000 people, linked by road and rail

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 “THREE MAGNETS”
 Howard pushed the idea of
garden city by a diagram” The

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Three Magnets”

 in trying to understand and

represent the attraction of city THE PEOPLE
WHERE THE PEOPLE GO?
he compared each city to a
magnet ,with individuals
represented as needles
attracted to magnet

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 depicts 3 magnets
 1.advantages and
disadvantages of town life
 2.advantages and
disadvantages of country
life
 3.town-country life,
incorporating advantages of
town and country life

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Town magnet Country magnet
Advantages Disadvantages Advantages Disadvantages
1. Opportunities for 1. Distance from 1. Natural beauty 1. Dullness
work work 2. Meadows 2. Lack of society
2. Choices of 2. Closely out of ,forests, wood 3. Lack of drainage
employment nature 3. Low rents 4. Low wages
3. High wages 3. Isolation from 4. Bright sunshine 5. Lack of
4. Social crowds 5. Abundant water amusements
opportunities 4. High rents 6. Fresh air 6. General decay
5. Amusements 5. Dirty air 7. healthfulness
6. Well-lit streets 6. Slums

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Town country magnet
Beauty of nature- peace all-over the places.

Social opportunity- cumulative growth.

Fields and parks of easy access- equal chances.

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Low rents- high wages.

Low rates- plenty to do.

Low prices- no sweating.

Field for enterprise- flow of capital.

Pure air and water- good drainage.

Bright homes & gardens- no smoke, no slums. 13

Freedom- Co-operation.
 Solution

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 Combination of advantage of town and country planning in the town
country magnet

 He proposed a town in a country

“garden city”

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DEFINITION OF GARDEN CITY
 Term means ‘a city in a garden ‘ or city of gardens’.

 By Garden cities and Town Planning Association ,1919

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“a garden city is a town designed for healthy living and
industry; of a size that makes possible a full measure of social
life; but not larger ;surrounded by a rural belt; the whole of the
land being in public ownership or held in trust for community”

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 Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained
communities surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate
areas of residences, industry, and agriculture.

 The garden city introduced the use of greenbelts that have served
many uses including the preservation of agricultural and rural life,
nature and heritage conservation, recreation, pollution minimization,
and growth management.

 Garden city tradition endowed urban planning with a social and

community dimensions.

 The garden city idea however, showed how both industrial estates
and collective retailing spaces could be used within a
comprehensive planning approach to serve public purposes.
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CORE PRINCIPLES OF GARDEN CITY
 Strong community
 Ordered development

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 Environmental quality

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PRINCIPLES OF GARDEN CITY
 Co-operatve holding of land to insure that the advantage of
appreciation of land values goes to the community,not the private

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individuals

 Economic and social advantages of large scale planning

 Establishment of cities of limited size, but at the same time

possessing a balanced agricultural industrial economy

 Urban decentralisation

 Use of a surrounding green belt to serve as an agricultural

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 FEATURES OF GARDEN CITY
1. Contains open spaces and gardens
around all the dwelling houses and
factories

2. Has a population which is neither too

small nor too large.

3. It is a city owned by all citizens on a

co-operative basis

4. Its is an independent entity having its

own civic life and affording all daily
needs with adequate spaces for
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purposes
5. It is a self sufficient unit having its own
industries

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6. It is surrounded by periphery by a green
belt.

7. It need not have the rapid transit

arrangement

8. The surplus fund is utilised for the

development of the community itself

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 CONCEPTUAL LAYOUT OF A
GARDEN CITY
• Circular city growing in a radial
manner or pattern.
• Divided into six equal wards, by
six main Boulevards that
radiated from the central
park/garden.
• Civic institutions (Town Hall,
Library, Hospital, Theatre,
Museum etc. ) are placed
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 The central park enclosed by a
crystal palace acts as an arcade for
indoor shops and winter gardens.

• The streets for houses are formed

by a series of concentric ringed
tree lined avenues.

• Distance between each ring vary

between 3-5km .

• A 420 feet wide , 3 mile long, Grand

avenue which run in the center of
concentric rings , houses the
schools and churches and acts as a
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 All the industries, factories and warehouses were
placed at the peripheral ring of the city.

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The municipal railway was placed in another ring

closer to the industrial ring , so that the pressure of
excess transport on the city streets are reduced and
the city is connected to the rest of the nation.

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GARDEN CITY CONCEPT IN PRACTICE
1. The first Garden City evolved out of Howard’s principles is
Letchworth Garden City designed by Raymond Unwin and
Barry Parker in 1903.

2. The second one to evolve was Welwyn Garden City designed

by Louis de Soissons and Frederic Osborn in 1920.

3. Another example was Radburn City designed by Clarence

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LETCHWORTH, ENGLAND, UK

 Letchworth- 35milesfrom london.

 land of 3822 acres.

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 reserved green belt- 1300 acres.

 designed for maximum of35ooo

population

 in 30 years-developed
with15000 population and
150 shops, industries

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 Letchworth is a independent city with a complete municipal life of its
own

 It is an industrial city with all the functions and activities of a self

contained community

 It is planned as home for all kind of industries with facilities of cheap

light,power,power,fuel and water

 Letchworth is meant for all lasses of people, the workers and the
owners

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Letchworth- A New Vision
WELWYN, UK
 Welwyn- 24 miles from London.

 land of 2378 acres.

 designed for a maximum of 40000

population.

 in 15 years-developed with10000
population and 50 shops,
industries

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 Welwyn garden city was
the second garden city in
England (founded 1920)
and one of thefirst new
towns (designated1948).

 it is unique in being both

garden city and a new

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town and exemplifies the
physical, social and
cultural planning ideals
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• Streets are designed so
as to give the concept of
a Neighborhood unit.

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• Separation of the
pedestrian walkways from
the main roads gives a
sense of natural beauty.
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 • Open and green spaces are
Given on a large scale.

• Personalization of Homes in
Welwyn with varying
roofline, texture and
composition for each house.

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RADBURN ,NEW JERSEY
• Radburn was planned by architects Clarence Stein and Henry Wright in
1928.
• It is America’s first garden community, serving as a world wide example of
the harmonious blending of private space and open area.
• Radburn provided a prototype for the new towns to meet the requirements for
contemporary good living.
• Radburn was designed to occupy one square mile of land and house some
25,000 residents.
• However, the Great Depression limited the development to only 149 acres..
• Although Radburn is smaller than planned, it still plays a very important role in
the history of urban planning.
• The Regional Planning Association of America (RPAA) used Radburn as a
garden city experiment.
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BANGALORE
 Asia’s fastest growing cosmopolitan city

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 It is the home to IT industry and many scientific
establishments

 Blessed with a good climate, gardens,peaks,natural

lakes, architectural land marks, hoping malls

 Bangalore is the ideal gateway o India and beyond

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FEATURE GARDEN CITY SATELLITE TOWNS

Dependence Self sufficient and self Dependent on parent city

contained unit

Gardens Around all houses and Not compulsory

factories

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Green belt Surrounded by green belt Situated outside green belt
of the parent city

Industries Permitted Not permitted

Rapid transit arrangement Not necessary Necessary in form of local

trains and buses

Roads and Some roads are arterial Only one arterial road to
communications and others are parent city
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Zoning Essential May or may not have
DEVELOPMENTS INFLUENCED BY THE GARDEN
CITY MOVEMENT
 Glenrothes , United Kingdom
 Bedford Park, London, United Kingdom
 Covaresa , Valladolid, Spain
 Den-en-chōfu, Ōta, Tokyo, Japan

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 Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
 Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
 Marino, Dublin, Ireland
 Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
 Pinelands, Cape Town, South Africa
 Village Homes, Davis, California, United States
 Reston, Virginia, United States
 St Helier, London, United Kingdom
 Tapiola, Finland 39
 Telford, United Kingdom
 The Garden Village, Kingston upon Hull
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