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Garden cities and the development of town planning
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... Garden cities and the development of town planning The 1909 Town Planning Act was the first major planning legislation to be introduced in Britain. The Act stated that the objective of town planning schemes was to secure "proper sanitary conditions, amenity and convenience in connexion with the laying out and use of the land [covered by the scheme] and of any neighbouring lands" (ASHWORTH, 1954, p184). Although the legislation was limited in its impact given that it was concerned only with the development of suburbs and not the improvement or remodelling of existing towns, it did represent a significant breakthrough for the town planning movement. 1909 marked the widespread acceptance of the arguments of the movement, that the scope of government involvement in planning and regulation must be wider than merely sanitary and housing issues, that we should also be concerned with the pleasantness of our physical surroundings, so-called amenity. The following
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