Garden City Movement

• Garden City ConceptAccording to the definition given by Garden Cities & Town Planning Association in 1919

“A Garden City is a Town designed for healthy living and industry; of a size that makes possible a full measure of social life, but not larger; surrounded by a rural belt; the whole of the land being in public ownership or held in trust for the community.”

Garden City Movement• The garden city movement is a method of urban planning.

• Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and agriculture.

Industrial revolution and the urban encroachment

Sir Ebenzer Howard(founder of the English garden-city movement, which influenced city planning throughout the world.)

•Howard wrote(1880 ) Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Social Reform. Not published until 1898

•This work was reissued in 1902 as Garden Cites of Tomorrow.

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GREEN BELT CONCEPT

“Greenbelt” refers to any area of undeveloped natural land that has been set aside near urban or developed land to provide open space, offer light recreational opportunities or contain development.

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Bangalore

Today is Asia's fastest growing cosmopolitan city. It is home To

• The I.T industry

• some of India's premier scientific establishments

• Blessed with a salubrious climate, gardens & parks, natural lakes, architectural landmarks, shopping malls, the best restaurants and pubs in this part of the globe

•Bangalore is the ideal gateway to India and beyond.