Such utopian projects and company towns in fact evaded the problems created by the continual growth of industrial cities. It had been recognized already in the seventeenth century that greenery could help to purify polluted air, hence the introduction of squares planted with trees and shrubberies which became a conspicuous feature of property development in London and which were to be included in the planning of Philadelphia and other colonial cities in America. London also had the benefit of vast royal parks, often called the lungs of the city, and most European capitals also had royal parks partly open to the public. the However, it was not until 1789 that first park intended specifically for the public was created, the Englischer Garten at Muuidt land donated to the city by the Elector(ruler) of was Bavaria. As the name indicates, it laid out like an English landscape park(see pp. 623-24) to provide the general public with pleasures previously available only to the owners of large estates. This type of park with lakes, gentle hillocks and paths meandering among clumps of trees
Such utopian projects and company towns in fact evaded the problems created by the continual growth of industrial cities. It had been recognized already in the seventeenth century that greenery could help to purify polluted air, hence the introduction of squares planted with trees and shrubberies which became a conspicuous feature of property development in London and which were to be included in the planning of Philadelphia and other colonial cities in America. London also had the benefit of vast royal parks, often called the lungs of the city, and most European capitals also had royal parks partly open to the public. the However, it was not until 1789 that first park intended specifically for the public was created, the Englischer Garten at Muuidt land donated to the city by the Elector(ruler) of was Bavaria. As the name indicates, it laid out like an English landscape park(see pp. 623-24) to provide the general public with pleasures previously available only to the owners of large estates. This type of park with lakes, gentle hillocks and paths meandering among clumps of trees
การแปล กรุณารอสักครู่..
