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It Could Happen Here

Why Garden Cities Aren't Enough ft. Andrew

It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.06.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Andrew talks with Gare and Mia about the history of Garden Cities and how a Georgist urban planning idea inspired Walt Disney (pejorative).

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:11.0

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0:16.0

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0:23.0

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0:35.0

Hello and welcome to Hit Carapun here with me, Andrew of the YouTube channel, Andrew Asm.

0:41.0

And today I'm joined by Mia and Gare.

0:45.0

Hello, hello, hello. Hello.

0:49.0

I want to talk about cities because I very recently published a video on Sulapong City Planet.

0:55.0

I don't know why you're all going to hear this podcast, but I did recently publish it.

1:02.0

I need to check that out on my channel.

1:04.0

I thought I'd share a bit more about one particular historical urban planning movement that I talk about in that video.

1:12.0

And that is Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities movement and his book, Garden Cities of Tomorrow.

1:21.0

Are you all familiar with either?

1:23.0

No. I don't think so.

1:27.0

Yes, so Ebenezer Howard, side note by the way, I don't know who looks at a child and names them Ebenezer Howard.

1:36.0

But he presented this idea of the Garden City concept in 1898 in a book called Tomorrow, a Peaceful Path to Real Reform.

1:47.0

Later, he republished in 1902 under the name Garden Cities of Tomorrow and take note in the title of the book of the use of reform and Peaceful Path.

1:58.0

Because it does highlight a noticeable lack within Howard's vision that we'll discuss later.

2:04.0

He wants to provide access to the benefits of both town, living and country living as he describes it, town and country like magnets drawn people to them.

2:14.0

So according to him, town offers vibrant society and opportunity and transportation, but it lacks the beauty of nature.

2:23.0

It has pollution, it has crowding, it has disease.

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