TOWN-PLANNING

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 93, 20 April 1920, Page 8

TOWN-PLANNING

MR. HURST SEAGER IN LONDON.

The paper -which. Mr. S. Hurst Seager read at the British Town-planninc .Conference, writes The Post's London correspondent, has' met with very wide approval and* appreciation. Messrs. Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker, whose names are known the world over in connection with town-planning, -are in . full accord '-with the view that industries should be considered in connection with any housing and town-planiiing scheme, and Mr. C. E. Pnrdom says that in stat- -: ing the case in the way he did Mr. Seager's paper should set people thinking • on those lines, and that good effect should result. M. A. A. Rey, tiie ; eminent French architect, did Mr. Seager the hononr of borrowing the photographs of New Zealand, which he showed when reading his paper, and he re-, marked that France looked to New Zealand for ideas, even more than to ( England. Mr. Seager will remain in this country for some months yet. He has already made a complete circuit of the north, where examples of town-plan-ning are to be seen.

Referring to garden cities and garden suburbs, The Times remarks that the two are often confused, or falsely identified ; the difference between them is actually fundamental. "Garden suburbs represent an extension of the daily traffic of a greiit town to k. more distant circumference; garden cities a- permanent . transference of a section of the population lo a less crowded centre. Every .inhabitant of a garden suburb who works in the city contributes twice a day his or her share to tho ever-increasing problem of traffic congestion. The colonist of a garden city, on the other hand, definitely relieves the overcrowded centres of the duty of transporting him to and from his work, and catering for him and his. Dwellers in a garden city are excursionists'; the garden citizen is an emigrant." ■