Presentation from the workshop 'Let's Design a Garden City' facilitated by James PIers Taylor at the 2014 London Permaculture Festival.

1. Let’s Design a Garden City

2. ‘The advantages of the most
energetic and active town
life, with all the beauty and
delight of the country, may
be secured in perfect
combination’
Ebenezer Howard,
To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path
to Real Reform, 1898

3. Garden Cities
economically independent cities with
short commute times and the
preservation of the countryside.
Garden Suburbs
built on the outskirts of large cities with no
sections of industry. Dependent on reliable
transport allowing workers to commute into
the city.

5. ‘cities must import resources, a process also known as conquest, colonialism,
and these days, the global economy' - Derrick Jensen, Endgame

6. ‘Cities take… 2% of the Earth’s surface but use at least 80% of all energy.
If we cannot make our cities more sustainable they could easily become our coffins
rather than our ark’ – Leo Hollis, Cities are Good for You; The Genius of the Metropolis

9. James Piers Taylor
@LondonPrmcultr