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 …
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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