The outskirts are back in again, according to a recent report that calls for Britain to build a new generation of garden cities and therefore rediscover a planning heritage dating back well over 100 years. The report favours building new communities from scratch away from cities that are already crammed to capacity with houses, roads and, of course, people.Re-imagining Garden Cities for the 21st Century harks back to the garden-city principles promoted by Ebenezer Howard (see box, p24). This and only this approach, it suggests, will overcome the stigma of building new communities borne of throwing up too many poor-quality developments and woefully inadequate infrastructure.
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