Yes, they're Ebenezer Howard's sketches for his "garden city" concept, which is one of the major sources of modern urban planning. His ideas were created to fight density ("congestion") by spreading people out into suburbs (aka sprawl).https://twitter.com/TheDonKofi/status/1037396994556350464 …
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True, just saying that Howard's vision was not all that sprawly, at worst, at the upper end of sprawl. We would have to build more densely today, but the concept of a network of new towns with innovative land tenure is still useful.
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And 19th century suburbs in America are relatively dense compared to 20th century ones--regardless, they come from the same mentality of "cities bad, let's spread out"
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There's nothing wrong with preferring a town or village to a city. The problem is optimizing the spatial form for cars, which basically mandates sprawl as we know it.
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Right, nothing wrong with preferring small-town life, everything wrong with requiring it
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We don't require it now; we destroy the possibility of both small-town and city life in favour of automobile sprawl. Agree that Howard's vision fed into the postwar suburban planning ideology, but it wasn't the same thing, nor did it have to lead there.
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