Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1920 — PLAN FOR SATELLITE CITIES [ARTICLE]

PLAN FOR SATELLITE CITIES

Test of an “All-Sufficient” Small Community Has Been Set for Near London, England. Much interest has been taken throughout England in a new plan for the building of a city about twenty miles from London on model lines. Under this Welwyn Garden City scheme it is intended that a toWn of ultimately about fifty thousand inhabitants shall be gradually constructed as a complete unit, with its ownfactorles, warehouses, shops and residences, in contrast to the many districts which are almost exclusively confined to dwelling houses for people who go Into the metropolis daily in pursuit of their livelihood. Such places have come to be known as dormitory suburbs, and the new scheme is based on the theory that the only solution of the whole problem of comfortable housing and convenient transport Is to set up instead what are described as satellite cities, in the sense that London itself is the center of all things, but that within a radius of twenty to twenty-five miles there should be a ring of these almost self contained communities. An Interesting feature of the scheme la that the capital provided will only receive a maximum interest of seven per cent, and as the town is gradually built, any increment of values arising from the settlement of the people will be conserved for their own social advantage.