Garden Cities

Garden city movement

The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and agriculture.

Inspired by the Utopian novel Looking Backward and Henry George's work Progress and Poverty, Howard published his book To-morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1898 (which was reissued in 1902 as Garden Cities of To-morrow). His idealised garden city would house 32,000 people on a site of 6,000 acres (2,400 ha), planned on a concentric pattern with open spaces, public parks and six radial boulevards, 120 ft (37 m) wide, extending from the centre. The garden city would be self-sufficient and when it reached full population, another garden city would be developed nearby. Howard envisaged a cluster of several garden cities as satellites of a central city of 50,000 people, linked by road and rail.^[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement

One answer was the garden city. Pioneered at Letchworth, then Hampstead, Bourneville and Port Sunlight, this was an early twentieth century attempt at Utopia. Rather than a mere housing development, viable economic communities were designed. Industry, public buildings and housing were carefully combined to create an environment on a human scale, where the manmade was balanced with nature. The architectural partnership of Parker and Unwin led this movement, and the following examples reveal their vision and creativity. Their legacy was profound. Architects like Le Corbusier studied and adapted their work; the New Towns of the Post-War period – Harlow, Peterlee and Milton Keynes, defer to their example; and even the modern cul-de-sac apes their forms.

http://www.architecture.com/HowWeBuiltBritain/HistoricalPeriods/TwentiethCentury/GardenCityMovement/Introduction.aspx

Interesting Lecture at http://www.beyondgreen.co.uk/library/2013/02/18/a-new-movement-in-planning/

So the plan for a city above involves a central area with 6 other things surrounding it. It is interesting formation that i have noticed in sacred geometry including the flower of life and Metatron's cube.

Maethrons Cube is visible within the flower and is kinda the basis of the structure of the garden city 

"Legend has it that Metatron the Angel formed a cube from his soul,  which was recorded in the early kabbalist scriptures.  It is interesting when we realize that so many cubes are described within the Holy Bible."