new garden cities alliance - community interest company
London
HOME / ABOUT Welcome to the New Garden Cities Alliance We are an alliance of
organisations – commercial and not-for-profit – and as well as individuals –
dedicated to promote the formation of new, genuine Garden Cities. Our aim is to
work in partnership with existing bodies to establish standards for Garden
Cities that Britain can be proud of. Also to establish exemplars for an
environmentally sustainable society that promotes the wellbeing of all citizens.
In particular we wish to set minimum standards for Garden Cities: 1. Being
applied to establish new settlements or for transforming existing urban
precincts; 2. To integrate the design of their invisible architecture of
ownership, control and funding with their visible architecture to promote the
common good; 3. That requires mutual ownership of all land to capture and share
its value on negotiable basis with all residents be they homeowners or tenants;
4. To attracts investors, entrepreneurs, established and new businesses to add
value to the community on basis that equitably shares any profits in excess of
the incentive to invest; 5. With the capacity to become largely self-reliant in
regards to the basic needs of its residents for water, food and energy and value
adding activities to sustain citizen prosperity in perpetuity; 6. That inspires
citizens, leaders, community groups, planners, architects and all other
stakeholders to work together to a common vision of an ecologically sustainable,
fair and equitable society. The New Garden Cities Alliance has been tasked by
the signatories of the Letchworth Garden City Declaration to create a movement
and organise the consensus to setup the mechanisms so that an agreed definition
of what a Garden City is can take root and we can give new settlements the
confidence to call themselves ‘Garden Cities’ if they meet a set of agreed
social, planning and architectural criteria.
