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==The Garden City==

==The Garden City==

In 1903 Unwin and Parker were selected to lay out the site of the First Garden City at [[Letchworth]], [[Hertfoprdshire]], along the lines recommended by [[Ebenezer Howard]], the settlement's founder.

In 1903 Unwin and Parker were selected to lay out the site of the First Garden City at [[Letchworth]], [[Hertfoprdshire]], along the lines recommended by [[Ebenezer Howard]], the settlement's founder. In 1905 they became planners of [[Hampstead Garden Suburb]], on what was then the northern edge of [[London]], and a development at odds with Howard's beliefs that large cities should not be encouraged to expand further. In fact, Unwin's principles, which postulated a low density of housing, at twelve dwellings to the acre, were to lead to an unprecedented expansion of London and other British cities in the first half of the twentieth century.

 

These principles were enshrined in an influential pamphlet by Unwin entitled 'Nothing to be Gained from Overcrowding', and he was shortly to be in a position to make them official policy. In 1914 he joined the civil service and in 1915 became chief planner to the Ministry of Munitions, where he was able to influence the design of several housing developments builtto house armaments workers and himself designed the townships of [[Gretna]] and Eastriggs in [[Dumfriesshire]], south-western [[Scotland]].