. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . mmmmmmmm fflfflRMMfMMm rwelfth Promenade Promenade RESUME It may here be advisable to make a synopsis ofthe three schemes for model cities referred to, andto facilitate comparison by means of tables em-bodying the salient points of each. It will be seenthat the Howard scheme provides only, for actual= dwelling sites, 375*75 acres for 30,000 people ;} the Buckingham gives 178*76 acres for 10,0
. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . mmmmmmmm fflfflRMMfMMm rwelfth Promenade Promenade RESUME It may here be advisable to make a synopsis ofthe three schemes for model cities referred to, andto facilitate comparison by means of tables em-bodying the salient points of each. It will be seenthat the Howard scheme provides only, for actual= dwelling sites, 375*75 acres for 30,000 people ;} the Buckingham gives 178*76 acres for 10,000 ;j whilst in the one I suggest, allowance is made forv 595*71 acres to the 15,220 inhabitants. These^ratios give respectively 80, 5 5, and 25 persons peri acre as the density of population of the actualresidentiary occupied land in each of these threeities, the latter figure being that prescribed byichardson and Chadwick as the maximum densityof population allowable for the City taken as awhole. In both the Howard* and the Buckingham * It must be noted in Howards favour that he takes 115 out3f 152-6 acres of his Grand Avenue and turns it into anJ additional park or ring of vegetation, in which he proposes to 1 o - - - ] 194 GARDEN CITIES IN THE
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