Here are illustrations for today’s column, published earlier, called “Garden suburbs as ‘Paradise Planned.’ ” Eventually they will appear with the Journal’s online version of the column as they once did with my old blog, and will be linked weekly from my new blog.

Bird’s-eye view of Glendale, Ohio, founded in 1851 and considered the first garden village in America. (All images courtesy RAMSA unless noted.)

Royal Crescent, Bath (en.wikipedia.org)

Prior Park, also in Bath, by Lancelot “Capability” Brown (de.wikipedia.org)

House designs for Blaise Hamlet, outside of Bristol

Riverside, outside of Chicago, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux; considered the first planned community in the United States

Diagram of garden city theoretical layout by Ebenezer Howard

Chart outlining influences on populations by Ebenezer Howard

Preferred garden city road patterns by Raymond Unwin

Seaside, Fla., designed by Andres Duany/Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

Diagram of urban block, Poundbury, Dorset, by Leon Krier

Waterfront of Celebration, Fla., plan designed by RAMSA

Street in Kentlands, Md., plan designed by DPZ (mocorealestate.com)
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About David Brussat
This blog was begun in 2009 as a feature of the Providence Journal, where I was on the editorial board and wrote a weekly column of architecture criticism for three decades. Architecture Here and There fights the style wars for classical architecture and against modern architecture, no holds barred.
History Press asked me to write and in August 2017 published my first book, "Lost Providence." I am now writing my second book.
My freelance writing on architecture and other topics addresses issues of design and culture locally and globally.
I am a member of the board of the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, which bestowed an Arthur Ross Award on me in 2002.
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