ABSTRACT
Green belts, to restrict a town’s growth and avoid consequential evils, are a long held dream (Blom 1986: ch. 1). They were promoted by Ebenezer Howard, proposed by Raymond Unwin for London in 1935 “…to provide a reserve supply of public open spaces and of recreational areas and to establish a green belt or girdle or open space …”, and they figured in the post-war Abercrombie Plans for Greater London, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
