IDEAL TOWN OF 1950

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20284, 28 August 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)

IDEAL TOWN OF 1950

Planned by Students of Architecture

“The Ideal town of 1950“ has been planned by students of the Architectural Association, and detailed plans, together with a large model, are Included In the school exhibition, says a London paper.

Directed by experts and working In conjunction with the School of Planning, an offshoot of the association, the ■students have not used as foundations for their Ideal town the imagination and dreams of youth, but the hard rock of statistics and plain neoessarles of progressive living. Inqulrle-s were made by means of questionnaires sent to flat dwellers, house dwellers, business men; eminent doctors were asked to give lectures, and food specialists had their -say. It was found that the huge oltles of to-day were defective In most health.

traffic, and practical respects, and the population of 1950’s Ideal was limited to 50,000 souls. City Dwellers Undernourished. City dwellers of to-day, It appears, the rich no less than the poor, are under-nourished, because food, milk, vegetables and fruit in particular, have lost muoh of their nutritive value by the time It reaches them. The Ideal town, limited in size, oould draw these goods directly and swiftly from the countryside round It. The offices of the town services, cinemas, theatres and oilier places of entertainment, and sports grounds, would bo centralised, and factories would he segregated on the farther side of an arterial road (free of all level crossings) skirting the city.