Sublime

the old days when they planted apple trees on the Holy Island and the apples froze in the cold.

Hall was thinking of figures like Ebenezer Howard, a contradictory combination who was both an anarchist and a planner. Horrified by the unhealthy and unhappy cities of Victorian England, he came up with the idea of the garden city—partly inspired by Edward Bellamy’s novel Looking Backward. Garden cities would solve the problems of congestion and

The fields gradually turned to red brick, the road giving out to streets, to multiple signs and office buildings and people walking by.

arranging country roads around large open squares of countryside or farmland, with houses closely packed along the road, but only one house deep. Lionel March lends support to this pattern in his paper, “Homes beyond the Fringe” (Land Use and Built Form Studies, Cambridge, England, 1968). March shows that such a pattern, fully developed, could work