BRITISH LANDSCAPES

For masterplanner Raymond Unwin, landscape was not just a background to lives lived, it was a weapon of social change, says David Davidson, architectural adviser at Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust. Unwin’s vision was the communal landscape, one that promoted social interaction at every turn. But just how rele-vant are the ideas of the Garden City to those nations currently in thrall to urban revolutions of their own? see what’s happen-

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He is also the first of our essay-ists in this special edition of Land-scape, which takes as its starting point the ideals of the Garden City and pits them against the great 21st century challenge: realising the green city. Pro-grammed by Susannah Charlton of the Twentieth Century Society, the lecture series accompanies the Garden Museum’s From Garden City to Green City exhi-bition. The five speakers agreed to pen a series of essays for us, so, following a foreword from Christopher Woodward, direc-tor of the Garden Museum, we dedicate 15 pages to what we can learn from more than a cen-tury of urban landscapes. This seemingly fantastical concept is actually under construc- tion in Milan and serves, on in the built environ-ment in the UK.

China and Mexico. In creating the Hampstead Garden Suburb, he realised the democratic land-scapes the Garden City move-ment espoused. Davidson was the first speaker in the Landscape Institute’s autumn lecture series Urban Landscapes Twentieth Century. their towns, cities and villages more attractive, healthi-er and bwildlife.

Projects adviser at the Prince’s Regeneration Trust Roland Jef-fery tackles housing landscapes, and the new towns in particular. Their landscapes, he says, have still to find a comfortable role that is somewhere in between the private garden and the public highway. The guide presents eight case studies that show how local people. Verticale on the cover?

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Ken Worpole, writer and senior professor at the Cities Institute, suggests that the British still have a problem in thinking about designed landscapes as places of pleasure. He asks whether now is the time for us to rediscover the purpose of our leisure landscapes.“If you leave people to live in a lousy, un-healthy, un-green and depressing environ-ment that indicates that society at large, their local authority and the government don’t care about them, then why should we be surprised when they act without

care themselves?” This is Sarah Gaventa writing in the wake of August’s riots as she asks how communities can possibly be expected to interact when they have nowhere decent to commune.And finally, Landscape’s honorary editor Tim Waterman explores our relationship with food and the urban landscape. Are taste and appetite our biggest barriers to realising sustainable design?

He is also

the first of our essayists in

this special edition of Landscape, which

takes as its starting point the ideals of the Garden City

and pits them against the great 21st century challenge: realising the

green city. Programmed by Susannah Charlton of the Twentieth Century Society,

the lecture series accompanies the Garden Mu-seum’s From Garden City to Green City exhibition.

The five speakers agreed to pen a series of essays for us, so, following a foreword from Christopher Woodward,

director of the Garden Museum, we dedicate 15 pages to what we can learn from more than a century of urban landscapes. This

seemingly fantastical concept is actually under construction in Milan and serves, on in the built environment in the UK. Projects adviser at the

Prince’s Regeneration Trust Roland Jeffery tackles housing landscapes, and the new towns in particular. Their landscapes, he says, have still to find a comfortable

role that is somewhere in between the private garden and the public highway. The guide presents eight case studies that show how local people. China and Mexico. In creat-

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