Science and City Suburbs 



engenders are unattainable by town-livers, who, 

 indifferent to, because ignorant of, what they have 

 lost, are content to be " like beasts with lower 

 pleasures, like beasts with lower pains." 



THE HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB 



It may be said that it was the scientific estimate 

 of these social and civic ills which resulted in the 

 creation of the Garden Suburb Trust, whose 

 objects are best told in the words of a letter to 

 the Times by the Trustees : 



" First. We desire to do something," they write, 

 " to meet the housing problem, by putting within 

 the reach of working people the opportunity of 

 taking a cottage with a garden within a 2d. fare 

 of Central London, and at a moderate rate. We 

 have already evidence that the opportunity would 

 be eagerly seized, and we believe that in cleaner 

 air, with open space near to their doors, with 

 gardens where the family labour would produce 

 vegetables, fruit, and flowers, the people would 

 develop a sense of home life and an interest in 

 nature which form the best security against the 

 temptations of drink and gambling. 



" Secondly. Our aim is that the new suburb may 

 be laid out as a whole on an orderly plan. When 

 various plots are disposed of to different builders, 

 and each builder considers only his own interest, 

 the result is what may be seen in the unsightly 

 modern streets. Our hope is that every road may 

 have its own characteristic; that small open spaces 



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