Letchworth, United Kingdom, Europe
 
 
Year1904latitude: 51° 58'
longitude: -0° 13'
Period
Initiator(s)Ebenezer Howard
Planning organization
Nationality initiator(s)
Designer(s) / Architect(s)Raymond Unwin
Barry Parker
Design organization
Inhabitants
Target population
Town website
Town related linkshttp://www.letchworthgc.com/aboutletchworth/index.html
Literature- None

type of New Town: > scale of autonomy
New-Town-in-Town
Satellite
New Town
Company Town
 > client
Private Corporation
Public Corporation
 > policy
Capital
Decentralization
Industrialization
Resettlement
Economic
 

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In 1903, First Garden City Ltd commenced the building of an experimental town on 3,818 acres of land at Letchworth, to prove that Howard's ideas were practical. The Garden City became a reality. A unique town where the profit from the management and development of the land was to be returned to the benefit of the town. Now, nearly 100 years later, this principle is still in place.

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