Green Belts - a celebration
Hunt, Tristram
Green Belts - a celebration - 2005 - Countryside Voice Summer 2005, 42-45(3) .
Provides a brief history of green belts from Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City movement, to present day. Considers the green belt system, encircling English cities and establishing boundaries between rural and urban, to have been a successful planning template. Describes the numerous assaults on the green belts across England since their inception and makes a plea for preserving them as much for the benefit of the cities as the countryside. Maps show the locations of England's green belts.
Green Belts - a celebration - 2005 - Countryside Voice Summer 2005, 42-45(3) .
Provides a brief history of green belts from Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City movement, to present day. Considers the green belt system, encircling English cities and establishing boundaries between rural and urban, to have been a successful planning template. Describes the numerous assaults on the green belts across England since their inception and makes a plea for preserving them as much for the benefit of the cities as the countryside. Maps show the locations of England's green belts.