@article{911328,
      recid = {911328},
      author = {Unwin, Raymond, and Unwin, Raymond, and Unwin, Raymond,},
      title = {Nothing gained by overcrowding /},
      pages = {1 online resource (103 pages) :},
      abstract = {"In his 1912 pamphlet for the Garden Cities and Town  Planning Association Nothing Gained by Overcrowding,  Raymond Unwin set out in detail the lessons learnt from his  formidable practical experience in the design and layout of  housing: at New Earswick from 1902, Letchworth Garden City  from 1905, and most significantly at Hampstead Garden  Suburb, where the 'artisans' quarter 1907-9 was probably  his masterwork of spatial design. His interest in  minimising the length of paved road to number of houses  served, and 'greening' the ubiquitous mechanistic bye-law  suburb of the late 19th century provided motivation for  defining a general theory of design, which under pinned  Garden City principles. Nothing Gained by Overcrowding  emerged as a principle which was to have a revolutionary  impact on housing and urban form over the next 50  years.Unwin's theory had developed with his work, but the  origins can be found in two earlier and less well known  publications. On the building of houses in the Garden City'  was written for the first international conference of the  Garden City Association, held in September 1901. The  following year he published the Fabian Society Tract  Cottage Plans and Common Sense, in which he took first  principles, 'shelter, comfort, privacy', and drew out  general criteria and specific standards. Housing had to be  freed from the bye-law strait jacket. This would sweep away  'back yards, back alleys and abominations-- too long  screened by that wretched prefix back'. Republished here  for the first time together, with an introductory essay by  Dr Mervyn Miller, these three papers make clear the  development of Raymond Unwin's theories of planning and  housing, theories which were among the most influential of  the 20th Century"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/911328},
}