Learning from Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City: Garden cities’ policies for the development of existing settlements in the contemporary world

• DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106759
• Publication Date: 2023-06-07T10:28:59Z
• Authors: Antonio Blanco Pa...; Eamonn Canniffe; Carlos Jesús Rosa...
• Keywords: Human settlement

So far, the garden city model has been analysed and adopted by scholars, urban planners, institutions to design cities, new towns, suburban communities as settlements from scratch around world. In contrast, this paper explores potentialities of such a provide multi-faceted approach based on territorial, socio-economic, planning strategies, thus offering series policies combat wide range issues in existing communities. For that purpose, provides about through case studies Letchworth Welwyn Garden City latest updated models form scheme with capability encourage decentralisation population means production across territory, develop cooperatives achieve self-financing system affordable housing communities, implement cities' principles for regeneration expansion towards sustainable, attractive, self-reliant prosperous future.