RT Journal Article
T1 Learning from Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City: garden cities’ policies  for the development of existing settlements in the contemporary world
A1 Blanco Pastor, Antonio
A1 Canniffe, Eamonn
A1 Rosa-Jiménez, Carlos
K1 Rehabilitación urbana
K1 Parques y jardines - Diseño
K1 Arquitectura del paisaje
K1 Ecología urbana
AB So far, the garden city model has been analysed and adopted by scholars, urban planners, and institutions to design garden cities, new towns, and suburban communities as new settlements from scratch around the world. In contrast, this paper explores the potentialities of such a model to provide a multi-faceted approach based on territorial, socio-economic, and urban planning strategies, thus offering a series of policies to combat a wide range of issues in existing communities. For that purpose, this paper provides a new approach about the garden city model through the case studies of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City and latest updated models to form a new scheme with the capability to encourage the decentralisation of population and means of production across the territory, develop cooperatives to achieve a self-financing system and affordable housing in existing communities, and implement the garden cities’ design principles for the regeneration and expansion of existing settlements towards a sustainable, attractive, self-reliant and prosperous future.
PB Elsevier
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/26948
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/26948
LA eng
NO Antonio Blanco Pastor, Eamonn Canniffe, Carlos Jesús Rosa Jiménez, Learning from Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City: Garden cities’ policies for the development of existing settlements in the contemporary world, Land Use Policy, Volume 132, 2023, 106759, ISSN 0264-8377, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106759.
NO Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026