Comments on: Joel Kotkin doesn’t know what a “garden city” is, but he knows he loves it

By: Elvis Meisters

Elvis Meisters — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:38:00 +0000

I think all large cities should think more about gardens, forest etc. Let’s make cities full with gardens again 🙂

By: Attorney

Attorney — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:29:14 +0000

Attorney

Joel Kotkin doesn?t know what a ?garden city? is, but he knows he loves it

By: Piscataquis Village Project

Piscataquis Village Project — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:46:00 +0000

A city with a radius of 2 miles with a population density of Paris would have a population of just under 700,000. Not everyone would be content with the job opportunities available in a metropolis of that size, but many would.

By: Piscataquis Village Project

Piscataquis Village Project — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:10:00 +0000

Take a closer look at Howard’s Garden City. As a couple of other folks have commented, his plan called for 30,000 people on 1,000 acres, with another 2,000 or so in the surrounding agricultural greenbelt. 30,000 people on 1,000 acres puts Garden City’s density at #14 on Wikipedia’s list of “Incorporated places with a density of over 10,000 people per square mile”. That beats San Francisco. Those 30,000 people would have a maximum 8 minute walk to the center, and even though it has single use zoning, everything is within walking distance, including a rail connection to other cities. The green agricultural belt of 5,000 acres brings food into the city with the shortest imaginable supply chain, and insures that you can “meet your farmer” by taking a short stroll. Oh, it could be better – if the 145 acre and the 115 acre parks set within the city, were set instead just outside at the perimeter the place would have a density just a tad less than New York City. We Americans would have to all live at a density of just under that of Queens to preserve as much open land as Howard’s proposed Garden City would.

By: zoya

zoya — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:20:00 +0000

Nice article, i love reading this. Landscape Designer

By: JD

JD — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:37:00 +0000

This Forbes article from 2010 identifies Joel Kotkin as an adjunct fellow at the Legatum Institute:

http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/11/dubai-burj-united-nations-opinions-columnists-joel-kotkin.html

This article idenifies the Legatum Institute:

http://business.financialpost.com/2012/11/05/u-s-slips-out-of-top-10-most-prosperous-countries-while-canada-keeps-no-6-ranking/

“The Legatum Institute is the public policy research arm of the Legatum Group, a Dubai-based private investment group founded in 2006 by New Zealand billionaire Christopher Chandler.”

I wonder what the priorities of a Dubai-based investment group founded by a billionaire be?
Does Kotkin still have ties or get money from this institute?

By: J.D. Hammond

J.D. Hammond — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 05:13:00 +0000

His love of Singapore as a suburban paradise is unsurprising, given that he also considers Arlington, Virginia to be an ideal suburb. His idea of what constitutes the ideal suburb is remarkably consistently contained within urban cores.

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