How to Build a Garden City?
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Is it better to live in the countryside or in a big town?
For most of human history, this was not a question a lot of people asked.
Big cities were simply not a thing.
But during the 19-century, the human world started to shift forcefully towards the urban.
The energy, innovation, and growth that clustering together of various peoples and enterprises brought about were powerful and overwhelming.
New industrial metropolises were growing out of control and as a result, they were full of dirt distress and disorder; no one really knew what to do with them, they were new phenomena in the human world. Are they a good thing, should they be contained, how to guide their growth, could they be less brutal, could they be more beautiful, were people better off in the countryside?
Many prominent thinkers of the time came forth with their diagnosis and solutions to various problems of a rapidly growing metropolis.
One curious gentleman from London by the name of Ebenezer Howard rose above the rest of the new self-appointed urban critics; according to him, the real solution to the countryside/big city question is to look for the third superior kind of settlement a balance between the two combining all of their positive aspects.
Upon this notion was formulated one of the most influential visions for an ideal settlement in urban history - The Garden City.
Everyone even a bit interested in the history of cities has heard of the Garden City.
However, this urban vision has been misunderstood and misinterpreted left, right and center.
Many garden suburbs, garden satellites, garden villages were built under the banner of the garden city movement; but the thing itself, the true garden city, the way Mr. Howard envisioned it is a rare find; the vision was never realized in its entirety.
But the impact of the garden city is immense and therefore In this little film, I set out to understand the Garden City once and for all: beyond the surface of familiar city planing elements towards the deeer insights that it gives us about our never ending quest for an ideal habitat.
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Music from the beginning and the end is "The Best Of Times?" by the band Grden City Movement
Other music used in the film: Cylinder 4 and Cylinder 5 by Chris Zabriskie
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This short film was written, edited, animated and narrated by Miona Petkovic
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This was WONDERFULLY done. Ignore the naysayers about the narration style; I loved it! It was -- magnetic! And beautifully written!
If you had lived there as I did, you would see what a balls up they made of it.
Very interesting - reminds me immediately of permaculture, eco villages, and Auroville, India in particular.
Good summary of the practical steps involved in setting something like this up
Howard offered the image of how future cities should be back at the time when people started to realize the importance of city planning, such as public health, economic efficiency and quality of individual life.
very well explained. now i am needing some money to start mine :D
Love Your Video!
Good stuff !!
For detached housing along with individualized transport grant absolute freedom and independence to the people, all residential areas shall be low-density.
@user-qb4ix6yq6l
28 күн бұрын
low density is boring
I just want to point out that when you look for industry you want cooperatives, normal capitalist industry's will not like a georgist land value tax, so you'd have to get coops on board. If you cant get coops to join then you'd have to ditch the land value tax as well as the whole collectively owned city thing. This is what ebenezer Howard had to do when he built his first and only city, and it resulted in absurdly high rent and housing prices, leading to the inhabitants mainly being rich land owners rather than workers.
Great idea for urban planning.
Very nice
I'd argue that most of Germany is made up of garden cities. They may not be that way intentionally, and certainly don't follow the circular design associated with garden cities, but they are none the less garden cities in concept. In Kaiserslautern municipality, Kaiserslautern is the major industrial and commercial hub. In between it and it's smaller towns is usually around 1 mile of green space. These smaller satellite towns are usually 1 square mile with a population usually between 1,000-10,000 surrounded by several hundred acres of woods and farmland. They may not all have rail linking them, but usually there are limited access arteries connecting the towns together and to the main city. Most of the towns can be driven to without having to drive through another town which reduces the amount of traffic within the towns. Each town has it's own character and its own government. Since their local government only has to concentrate on a small area, they are better able to beatify it and make their small patch of town a very livable one for their residents.
Very nice video, thanks a lot.
Great Information!!
Great video
thank so much for the beautiful concept of Garden city ur narration took it to higher levels :)
@SpatialSnowflake
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your kind comment, it's much appreciated! Wish my audio had been better in certain places, but oh well...(:
woow..... thank you so much
very well explained, thank u for sharing this❤❤❤❤❤❤
Beautiful explanation 👌
Really great video. Just found it. ❤
A big like to this video, it's very well explained the concept in a nutshell
@SpatialSnowflake
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, very glad you enjoyed it!
Very nice video, you might re do the audio on a re-upload
great
where did get that photo?? the resolution!!
6000 or 9000? in plan they mention , central circle12acr for 58000& outer circle is 9000acr for 32000 ? can u explain its actual land distribution?
Nice voice
very pleasant accent
i mean it is not ebenezer's fault to demagnatize these cities. this is literally capitalism. now we have tons of tons of private cars that f*cks up the whole structure of our cities and expand it infinetly. i wish there was a way to self-manage these garden cities so citizens have a say in these situations. also, a self-managed industry would be awesome and would be inline with this city project. Howard got his ideas from kropotkin so he would be happy if this came into being. unfortunate that we don't go that path and i am certain if we do went that path we would be succesful for doing so if the mainframe of our economic structure is different.
are new garden cities still being built?
Voice 😔
garden cities need specific contexts to be successful.
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6,000 acres ????
This narration is so distracting and breathless but yay garden cities!!! Love garden cities!! 😊
양현준 과제 대신 시키지마라 ;;
What’s going on with the breathless narration ?
@roundduck7005
2 жыл бұрын
Lol
@magicknight13
9 ай бұрын
Lmao now I can't unhear it 😂😂😂
you didnt show garden cities on your fly bys... i hope you got like.... 8%