Garden City Vs Radiant City

For centuries, urban planning has played a key role in developing human well-being as well as protecting the environment, public welfare and especially residents. Houses, schools, parks, buildings, surrounding environment including transportation, air, water and infrastructure affect people’s lives. Therefore, it is undeniable that prosperity and advancement in terms of security and healthcare are major requirements to many people living in cities. What comes after this is the question of what safe city should be like and the answers may vary. Throughout 19th century, there were many ideals of a healthy city represented. Urban planners were urged to solve the problems of big cities and provide better lives for its residents. These problems included low-quality of living condition as a result from noises, smells, dirtiness, poor security and poor access to infrastructure. Sir Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier are among those town planners who have proposed the notions of their dream city, The Garden City and The Radiant City respectively. These two ideals have influenced the development of many model cities around the world with different features and …show more content…
The two ideas represent the combined of town and nature, this indicates that in order to improve quality of life and health, green spaces are needed. People lives should be associated with nature as cities seem to be offensive to nature, high population density and inequality of access to infrastructure should be rearranged. Nevertheless, unsafe city zones in big city are unable to avoid. Certain places are left empty during certain times of the day leads to crimes. Nearly every major city today, The Radiant City-inspired apartment blocks have become dangerous places however, most have been reconstructed or