What is the green belt: First proposed as a vision in the 1930s, the first form of planning policy regarding the prevention of urban sprawl was the Town and Country Planning Act 1947. Following from this, local authorities were encouraged to strategically designate an orbital […]
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The rise of the Urban Arcadia
For a long time, architecture and the rise of the urban landscape were seen as being entirely incompatible with nature. The very notion of creating a man-made structure screamed destruction and disregard to the natural world. This definitive conclusion was not altogether constructed from fiction […]