ABSTRACT
HOWARD QUOTES FROM RICHARDSON’S PAMPHLET HYGEIA, A CITY OF Health (1876), one of the models on which he drew in developing his Garden City concept. Benjamin W.Richardson FRS (18281896) numbered amongst his activities a temperance crusade, poetry, play and novel writing, and substantial contributions in medicine. He concentrated not on the aesthetics of city planning, but on urban services that would enhance people’s health and quality of life. He proposed a new city of 100,000 people living in 20,000 houses on 4,000 acres at an average density of 25 per acre (60/ha). Richardson commented that ‘This may be considered a large population for the space occupied, but, since the effect of density tells only determinately when it reaches a certain extreme degree, as in Liverpool and Glasgow, this estimate may be ventured’ (Richardson, 1876, pp. 18-19).
