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Potter, Stephen and Thomas, Ray
(1980).
URL: https://archive.org/details/newtownsinnation0000in...
Abstract
Many professionals have had the ability and vision to design new towns and communities, but it was Ebenezer Howard who devised the way to make new towns and economically viable proposition. Howard saw that the key to providing socially equitable settlements was not in terms of their physical design but in the development model used. This was capturing rising land use value to fund the infrastructure and social facilities. This model was used at Letchworth Garden City and, in a modified form, in Britain's new towns programme. But rather then being the means by which new towns could lead to a new system of community land ownership, the new towns have been absorbed back into the existing land ownership system.
Plain Language Summary
Many professionals have had the ability and vision to design new towns and communities, but it was Ebenezer Howard who devised the way to make new towns and economically viable proposition. Howard saw that the key to providing socially equitable settlements was not in terms of their physical design but in the development model used. This was capturing rising land use value to fund the infrastructure and social facilities. This model was used at Letchworth Garden City and, in a modified form, in Britain's new towns programme. But rather then being the means by which new towns could lead to a new system of community land ownership, the new towns have been absorbed back into the existing land ownership system.
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