SATELLITE CITIES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3557, 20 August 1920, Page 5

SATELLITE CITIES

Much interest has been taken .throughout Engtiand in a new plan for the building of a city about 20 miles from London on model lines. Under this Welwyn Garden City ■scheme it is intended that a town of ultimately about 50,000 inhabitants shall be<%radually constructed as a complete unit, with its own factories, wharehouses, shops, and residences, in contrast to the many districts which are a'lmost exclusively confined to dwelling houses for ; oople who* go into the metropolis c ..i'.y in pursuit iof their livelihood. Such places have come to be known as donatory suburbs, and the new scheme is based on the theory that the only solution of the whole problem of comfortable housing and convenient transport is to set up instead what are' described as satellite cities, in the sense that •London itself is the centre of all things, but that within a radius of 20 to 25 miles there should be a ring of these almost self-contained communities. An interesting feature of the scheme is that the/ capital provided will only receive a maximum interest of 7 per cent, and as soon as the town is gradually built any increment of values arising from the settlement of' the people • will be conserved for their own social advantage.