Nothing Gained by Overcrowding

Raymond Unwin and Town Planning
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-64498-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 100 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Reihe: Studies in International Planning History

In his 1912 pamphlet for the Garden Cities and Town Planning AssociationNothing Gained by Overcrowding, Raymond Unwin set out in detail the lessons learnt from his formidable practical experiencein the design and layout of housing: at New Earswick from 1902, Letchworth Garden City from 1905, and most significantly at Hampstead Garden Suburb, where the ‘artisans’ quarter’ 1907-9 was probably his masterwork of spatial design. His interest in minimising the length of paved road to number of houses served, and ‘greening’ the ubiquitous mechanistic bye-law suburb of the late 19th century provided motivation for defining a general theory of design, which under pinned Garden City principles. Nothing Gained by Overcrowding emerged as a principle which was to have a revolutionary impact on housing and urban form over the next 50 years.

Unwin's theory had developed with his work, but the origins can be found in two earlier and less well known publications. On the building of houses in the Garden City’ was written for the first international conference of the Garden City Association, held in September 1901. The following year he publishedthe Fabian Society Tract Cottage Plans and Common Sense, in which he took first principles, ‘shelter, comfort, privacy’, and drew out general criteria and specific standards. Housing had to be freed from the bye-law strait jacket. This would sweep away ‘back yards, back alleys and abominations … too long screened by that wretched prefix back’.
Republished here for the first time together, with an introductory essay by Dr Mervyn Miller, these three papers make clear the development of Raymond Unwin's theories of planning and housing, theories which were among the most influential of the 20th Century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unwin, Raymond

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Raymond Unwin and the Garden City Movement 2. Nothing Gained by Overcrowding (Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, 1912) 3. On the Building of Houses in the Garden City (Garden City Association, 1901) 4. Cottage Plans and Common Sense (Fabian Society Tract, 1902)

Über Autor(innen)

Sir Raymond Unwin (1863to 1940) was a prominent and influential English architect and town planner,best known for his effots to improve working class housing.