Accueil - Utopies Réalisées. Best-laid plans for Australian garden cities and reflections on the Southern Cross. I spotted a few enticing visual patterns when browsing Australian cities in Google Earth recently.
First, of course Canberra's Ebenezer Howard-inspired city centre looks fantastic from the air, even if it was never finished according to plan. (See also Marion Mahoney Griffin's beautiful watercolours - "infused with sepia, gold and other luminescent tones which capture the goldenness of a quintessential Australian landscape" - as part of the winning submission for Canberra's design, with her husband: 1, 2, 3, 4.) It'd be interesting compare a few more garden city layouts - given Google Earth's fantastic capability for revealing urban layout, as noted previously with respect to Barcelona (see also).
Garden Cities by Ebenezer Howard « SCOD Public Blog. From the book Garden Cities of To-morrow by Ebenezer Howard 1898, 1902 Ebenezer Howard was a shop keeper’s assistant, farmer, writer, sociologist, and statesman.
Howard valued good living conditions, democracy, nature, human rights, and personalities. Osburn and Mumford added notes that introduce, critique, review, and praise Howard. Utopie - Palma Nova. Commune de Neuf-Brisach (Haut-Rhin - 68 - Alsace - France) Si l'histoire de Timgad m'etait racontée Part 1