Design in town and village.

  • Great Britain. Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
Date:
1953
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Design in town and village. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    almost any other part of the world. But that it is not so now can be seen in all too many examples of villages which have been ‘ im- proved’ by the kind of treatment that is appropriate for village gardens. ‘There are places where flower beds and rockeries have been made on the village green ; and in most places there seems to be a belief that the only trees worth planting now are little flowering trees—preferably with pink blossom. It would be an even sadder thing to see our villages thus vulgarized with inappropriate natural forms than it is to see them scarred by bad building, were it not that the trees and bushes and flower beds can be at least be got rid of more easily than the buildings. It seems to me that much the same kind of considerations apply to landscape forms as to building forms in the village. Simplicity is the essential attribute and, again to define it, simplicity means “ consisting of one element, not Z = : : Di being complicated or elaborate or adorned, or FIG. 21. Lenham, Kent. H. S. Newcombe, F.R.P.S. involved or highly developed.” I think that the