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Both Letchworth and Welwyn G.C. are thriving communities, but not in the way that Howard had intended. It could be argued that his theories were not properly trialled, since a grouping of six or seven new towns never emerged to test their sustainability as a self-supporting network.
Both Letchworth and Welwyn G.C. are thriving communities, but not in the way that Howard had intended. It could be argued that his theories were not properly trialled, since a grouping of six or seven new towns never emerged to test their sustainability as a self-supporting network.
Nevertheless, his theories were very influential in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, on urban form if not economic and social function. The low density housing adopted as Letchworth became the ideal for housing reformers; 'garden suburbs' (in one sense a complete negation of Howard's true intentions) became a vogue, and low density housing (not more than twelve dwellings per acre) was the norm for both privately-owned and municipal housing in the interwar years. Only after the [[Second World War]] did the discrete Garden City again take its place in planning orthodoxy, this time in the form of the New Towns designed to reduce the population of [[London]] and to regenerate depressed areas in northern [[England]], south [[Wales]] and [[Scotland]].
[[Category:Urban Planning]]
[[Category:Urban Planning]]