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For master planner Raymond Unwind, landscape was not just a background to lives lived, it was a weapon of social change, says David Davidson, architectural adviser at Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust. Unwinds vision was the communal landscape, one that promoted social interaction at every turn. In creating the Hampstead Garden Suburb, he realized the democratic landscapes the Garden City movement espoused. For master planner Raymond Unwind, landscape was not just a background to lives lived, it aweapon of
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nd finally, Landscape’s honorary editor Tim Waterman explores our relationship with food and the urban landscape. Are taste and appetite our biggest barriers to realising sustainable design? But just how relevant are the ideas of the Garden City to those nations currently in thrall to urban revolutions of their own? We asked Ruth Olden to get behind the images of verdant green cities and see what’s happening in India, China and Mexico. With large-scale investment on the backburner for the foreseeable future, the Landscape Institute’s latest publication Local green infrastructure: helping communities make the most of their landscape, seems particularly pertinent.
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