Garden city

Sir Ebenezer Howard‘s garden city concept has without doubt influences the mind of today town planners. Ever since its birth in the nineteen century, it has spread widely and has been used as a basis from which existing ideas were revised and reformulated. This fundamental ideas remain as an important basic urban planning idea even in the world today. In Singapore, for instance, traces of the garden city concept could be observed from the way the nation was structured. In my essay, I shall first discuss on the urban hierarchy order seen in Singapore as a whole and then within the Housing and Development Board (HDB) new towns with reference to Sir Ebenezer Howard‘s garden city concept.


Sir Ebenezer Howard and The Garden City
In 1898, Sir Ebenezer Howard wrote a book entitled Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. During then, he was concerned with the depopulation in the countryside and the poor quality of life found in congested and dirty cities. The Industrial Revoluti...