The strange and wonderful 19th century utopian suburbs

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Despite current arguments that suburbs damage the environment, the first ones were actually advocated for by environmentalists and utopia builders. Ebenezer Howard wanted a suburban utopia that would solve all of society's problems: The Garden City. They were compact, walkable cities and they became a worldwide urban planning phenomenon, and their legacy lasts to this day.
SOURCES:
"Paradise Planned" by Robert A. M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove
"Visionaries and Planners: The Garden City Movement and the Modern Community" by Stanley Buder

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24 авг 2022

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@Thaddeus2007 Год назад

Thank God people like you are actually talking about this. I live in the Suburbs of Lansing and it's ludicrously large compared to the city proper. You know what was on the outskirts of Lansing before Suburbs? Forests, farmland and parks. It's almost disgusting when I see 300k suburban houses sell in the middle of the what used to be countryside.

@francoluissotomayor5521 7 месяцев назад

Puerto Rico

@duckpotat9818 Год назад

Sad you didn't talk about the world's largest 'garden city' - Chandigarh, India with 2 million inhabitants if you include satelite towns who themselves are a copy of Chandigarh. It's a planned city, one of the largest in the world, built on garden city and Brutalist principles. It was Le Corbusier's magnum opus and remains India's one of most beloved and best cities to live in. I lived there for 19 years before moving away for college, fee free to ask me about it.

@vliangoomen6075 Год назад

I got this recommended by Yt. The algorithm is on your side on this one :) greetings from the Netherlands

@blini224 Год назад

🙏 algorithm

@svenceelen8197 8 месяцев назад

Maybe the most important video I have seen in a year. Incredible job, explaining such an amazing topic that was so important and was somehow lost to modern times. Reminds me of the new 15 min city movement.

@Stroopwaffe1 2 месяца назад

I grew up in the 2nd Garden City. 1st from 1976 to 1990 in Pangshanger to the east, a sub district of wgc and then in the oldest part of the town on the west side near Stanbrough Lakes my Grandfather and Grandmother moved out of Stepney Green in the Eastern of London. She was a Bona fide "Cockney" as she was born in earshot of Bow Belles, the Church along Stepney Green High Steet. Just in time as my Father was born on the 6thof September 1939, he live on rations till 1957.

@coolbutters Год назад

Great video, suburban sprawl has been becoming a large problem in most industrial countries and I think that if governments would somehow revive the garden city idea it would fix a lot of problems with modern life.

@alextaylor9746 Год назад

Welwyn garden city, didn't realize it had an interesting history.

@newsxn 8 месяцев назад

I’ve lived in WGC my whole life. I wish ebenezer got a chance to do more. Great video.

@kefirmroku4494 Год назад

Hello from Nowa Huta, the Polish Soviet garden city!

@kefirmroku4494 Год назад

There are several videos on it, for example: - Zielona Nowa Huta / Green Nowa Huta - our dream of a sustainable city - Nowa Huta - Socialist Realism: The Communist Utopia in Poland

@kefirmroku4494 Год назад

@@blini224 It is even more interesting if you know history (im ethnologist), there are three lesser known (semi-mythical) facts about the city: (1) Nowa Huta was built around the grave mound of Queen Wanda (1200BC), from whom all the Vendi, Veneti, Venetians, Wendisch and Vandals have their name (2) due to Polish legends (Twardowski Legend) next to this mound there was "gate to hell", and word "huta" means in Turkic and Arabic languages both "hell" and "steel mill", thus the city name - the New Still Mill / Nowa Huta. (3) it was "the perfect communist city without a church", which was a place of a battle for cross in 1960 (Wiki PL: Wypadki nowohuckie 1960 - use translator), and thanks to his involvement in this Karol Wojtyłła became pope John Paul II.

@medhavishah9711 8 месяцев назад

Great information with a clear narrative. Thanks very much for this.

@ajgrant9975 Год назад

Incredible video

@bakerc98 Год назад

Great video, keep it up!

@derekread9648 3 месяца назад

You describe how Ebenezer Howard’s ideas were developed in the USA and unfortunately led to car-dependent suburban sprawl. But in the UK Howard’s principles were given practical expression in the new towns programme, which remained much closer to his ideals. Many new towns were built from the late 1940s until the early 1980s, when the neo-liberal Thatcher government halted their construction for political reasons. But the Labour Party have promised to re-start the construction of new towns if they return to government in 2024. For a recent highly successful urban extension built on updated garden city (new urbanist) principles, see King Charles’s Poundbury development in Dorset.

@anime_adct Год назад

great work

@lemapp 5 месяцев назад

During WWI, the US Federal Government built their first housing projects. One in particular was Hiddenwood in Warwick County, VA. It was built to house workers for the nearby Newport News Shipbuilding. Along the main highway was shopping and a theatre. The housing became less dense the further from the main road with the largest houses along the river. The facades were chosen to match a rural English village. The ideas discussed here are visible in the community's design.

@matthiuskoenig3378 8 месяцев назад

I have lived in a gated community in South Africa similar to the car friendly garden city, well a suburb with elements similar to it. Lots of inter-connected parks connected by foot paths, including a walkable distance community centre and school access able 100% through these foot paths. So I think the concept of combining that with a garden city concept is definately feasible and should be tried again. It just needs rail, so that cars are only an option rather than the only way in like the idea tested in 1929.

@danielkimravenson1169 Год назад

well done

@NoirMorter 6 месяцев назад

He's correct. There is an observed issue in many countries where cities are highly populated to the point of congestion. Country side villages are aging and dying out as all the wealth trickles into fewer and fewer hands. By wealth I'm referring to buying power. Many people in the US can afford to buy a house in rural Wyoming, but who wants to? How would you make a living? Our world is set up in a weird way that is not easy to fix.

@flaviusstilicho1239 9 месяцев назад

Fun fact: in Germany 2 years prior to Ebenezer Howard, the radical antisemite Theodor Fritsch first proposed a garden city which was basically the same as Howards conception. He became extremely mad when Howards garden city became more popular also in Germany than his concept.

@liliadesouza3597 Год назад

hi, welwyn is pronounced like well-in, no W sound, just so you know

@blini224 Год назад

good to know, thank you!

@urbanistgod Год назад

The Constitution of Great Urbanism For detached housing along with individualized transport grant absolute freedom and independence to the people, all residential areas shall be low-density.