Nothing Gained by Overcrowding (Classic Reprint): How the Garden City Type of Development May Benefit Both Owner and Occupier - Couverture souple

Raymond Unwin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332225179 ISBN 13 : 9781332225170

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Rethinking town growth: a Garden City approach that links open space, housing, and value for all.

This nonfiction work argues that limiting how many houses sit on a given acre can deliver more usable land, better gardens, and healthier neighborhoods. It examines how open space per family and the size of buildings interact with town planning, showing why a less crowded layout can improve amenities and reduce costs for both owners and occupants.

Through proposed schemes and practical calculations, the book explores how density affects land value and ground rents. It contrasts old, crowded development with Garden City methods, illustrating potential benefits for large estates, developers, and residents if the community chooses coordinated development over fragmentation.

• How limiting houses per acre can preserve garden space without raising costs for tenants.


• Why density decisions influence land value, building size, and road needs.


• Economic implications for landowners when adopting a Garden City approach.


• Practical examples that compare traditional vs. Garden City development models.

Ideal for readers of urban planning, housing policy, and land economics seeking a clear look at scale, value, and community welfare.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In his 1912 pamphlet for the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association   Nothing Gained by Overcrowding, Raymond Unwin set out in detail the lessons learnt from his formidable practical experience in 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 published the 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.

Biographie de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332225179
• ISBN 13: 9781332225170
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 30
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