Garden Suburb Design Principles

Hampstead garden suburb design guidelines and position paper concerning the maintenance of the suburb s public realm contents preface 1 introduction 1 1 london borough of barnet heritage strategy 1 2 ppg 15 planning and the historic environment 1 3 hampstead garden suburb conservation area.

Garden suburb design principles. The strategic design codes are a set of illustrated design requirements leading from the smf for the strategically important infrastructure that is central in defining the garden suburb character. It s the designer who identifies and manipulates them to create the garden. History and story.

The plan also included city beautiful elements. Flow transition or rhythm. Cadbury has been the first name.

The concept can be considered the predecessor to the exurb which emerged in the us in the 1950s both were dependent on the development of improved methods of transportation. First is the idea of underlying order. They were marked by radical conservatism dreamy down to earthness and a sophisticated attachment to simplicity livingstone and parry 108.

All the garden city suburb promoters had a social mission both to enable their clients to lead a more fulfilling form of life and thereby to improve society itself. Reginald hammond s prize winning design for a garden suburb at ōrākei auckland was based on garden city planning principles with curvilinear streets and ample public reserves and amenities. Garden suburbs are residential areas well beyond the suburbs they are the opposite of garden cities which were introduced in ebenezer howard s.

That the garden for all its naturalness or wildness is founded on strong principles what s sometimes known in garden circles as good bones second that regulating lines at least as i employ them are subjective. Covering well over a century and a half. A distinct variant known as radial garden suburbs is characterized by a geometrically ordered arrangement of streets and land subdivision with tree lined residential streets radiating outward in tiers from a centrally located circular park.

A distinct community with its own identity a garden suburb was to be largely self contained with a range of facilities. Design codes cover built edges green spaces green edges and primary streets throughout the garden suburb to ensure consistency of design on the key. Great structure and unifying elements will create a pretty picture but your garden can appear static.