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The New Towns: Organization and Spontaneity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Rahat Nabi Khan
Rahat Nabi Khan*
Affiliation:
India
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The New Towns Movement began in England and later spread world-wide in response to the increasing concern felt at the deterioration of the quality of life in the large cities under the impact of industrialization. The New Towns, it was felt, would combine the advantages of life in the country with that of life in the city. They would be small communities of between 30.000 and 60.000 inhabitants. Their principal characteristics were to be a balanced economy and a well-defined pattern of industrial, commercial and residential zones.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 31 , Issue 121 , March 1983 , pp. 49 - 67
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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References

1 See the introduction by Lewis Mumford to The New Towns: The Answer to Megalopolis by Frederick J. Osborn and Arnold Whittick, London, Leonard Hill, 1963.

2 Frederick Osborn, op. cit., plate 9 (a), Stevenage.

3 See Henri Moulierac, "Strike. War or Festival?," in Diogenes No. 98, (Summer) 1977, p. 55.

4 Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of Tomorrow, London, Faber and Faber, 1946.