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View of Poundbury, Dorset. All of the New Town's buildings were designed to reflect traditional architecture. Brownsword Hall to the left was designed by architect John Simpson and based on earlier traditional designs, particularly the one in Tetbury. Greetings card entrepreneur and friend of the Prince Andrew Brownsword funded the building
View of Poundbury, Dorset. All of the New Town's buildings were designed to reflect traditional architecture. Brownsword Hall to the left was designed by architect John Simpson and based on earlier traditional designs, particularly the one in Tetbury. John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE (born 9 August 1944) is an English foreign correspondent. Tetbury is a town and Civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. Greetings card entrepreneur and friend of the Prince Andrew Brownsword funded the building

Poundbury is an experimental new town — or more correctly a new village — on the outskirts of Dorchester in the county of Dorset, England. Andrew Brownsword (born 1947 is an English Entrepreneur, developing his fortune through Greeting cards and gifts and latterly hotel development who is A new town, planned community or planned city is a City, Town, or Community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. Dorchester is a Market town in southern central Dorset, England, on the River Frome at the junction of the A35 and A37 A county is a Land area of Regional Government within a larger State. Dorset ( (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

The village is built on land owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, and is an experiment in the ideas of Charles, Prince of Wales, who has challenged the post-war trends in town planning. The Duchy of Cornwall is with the Duchy of Lancaster, one of the two Royal duchies in England. Post-War is the fifth studio album by M Ward. It was released on August 22 2006 by Merge Records. The Prince is known for holding strong views on recent urban planning and architecture. The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation

The village is built to a traditional high-density urban pattern, rather than a suburban one, focused on creating an integrated community of shops, businesses, and private and social housing; there is no zoning. South San Jose (cropjpg||thumb|A suburban development in San Jose California. Public housing is a form of Housing tenure in which the property is owned by a Government authority which may be central or local Zoning is a term used in Urban planning for a system of land-use Regulation in various parts of the world including North America the United Kingdom The planners say they are designing the village around people rather than the car and claim to be providing a high-quality environment from the architecture through to the selection of materials, to the signposts, and the landscaping. Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land including but not limited to living elements, such as To avoid constant construction, utilities are buried in common utility ducts under the town. A common utility duct, sometimes called a common utility conduit is any structure - above on or below ground - that carries more than two types of Public utility lines Common areas are maintained by a management company to which all residents belong.

To some degree, the project shows similarities with the contemporary New Urbanism movement, primarily found in the United States, except that the design influences are, of course, European. New Urbanism is an American Urban design movement that arose in the early 1980s The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The design of the houses tends to be traditional, with period features such as bricked-up windows, a feature found on many old British buildings, due to the window tax. The window tax was a Glass tax which was a significant social cultural and architectural force in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and then Great

The overall plan was developed in the late 1980s by the European architect Leon Krier, and construction started in October 1993. Léon Krier (born 7 April 1946 in Luxembourg City) is an Architect, architectural theorist and Urban planner. Krier's plans have been criticised for mixing too many different continental styles and the use of non-local building materials, which are not consistent with the traditions of Dorchester. For other kinds of building materials see Hardware, Biology, Star formation. It is expected that the four plan phases will be developed over 25 years with a total of 2,500 dwellings and a population of about 6,000. Greetings card entrepreneur Andrew Brownsword sponsored the £1 million development of the market hall at Poundbury, designed by John Simpson and based on early designs, particularly the one in Tetbury. Andrew Brownsword (born 1947 is an English Entrepreneur, developing his fortune through Greeting cards and gifts and latterly hotel development who is John Simpson CVO BSC (HONS DIP ARCH RIBA (Born 9 November 1954) is a British architect Tetbury is a town and Civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. [1]

Following New Urbanist principles, Poundbury was intended to reduce car dependency and encourage walking, cycling and public transport. Automobile dependency is a term coined by Professors Peter Newman and Jeff Kenworthy to capture the predicament of most cities in the United States Canada Australia and New However, a survey conducted at the end of the first phase, showed that car use was higher in Poundbury than in the surrounding (rural) district of West Dorset. [2]

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References

  1. ^ A model village grows up gracefully - Telegraph
  2. ^ WATSON, G. , BENTLEY, I. , ROAF, S. and SMITH, P. , 2004. Learning from Poundbury, Research for the West Dorset District Council and the Duchy of Cornwall. Oxford Brookes University

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