Letchworth Garden City, 1903 to Present — Eduqas GCSE History C100
Eduqas GCSE History · C100
Letchworth Garden City, 1903 to Present
A study of the historic environment connected with Changes in Health and Medicine in Britain, c.500 to the present day
What you need to know
Analyze the historical context of Letchworth Garden City, focusing on the problems of living conditions caused by nineteenth-century industrialisation and urbanisation.
Evaluate attempts to improve public health and housing in the late nineteenth century, and understand Ebenezer Howard's role in the Garden City movement.
Describe the main features of Letchworth Garden City, including its housing layout with central worker cottages and middle-class outskirts.
Explain the integration of large council estates as post-war London overspill and the development of private estates in the 1970s.
Assess the development of transport links, such as Sollershott Circus roundabout and the 1912 railway.
Analyze the presence of non-conformist churches and the controversy surrounding public houses, culminating in the first official pub in 1962.
Understand the modern property range in Letchworth, from historical conservation areas to deprived neighbourhoods.
Evaluate the significance of Letchworth as the first garden city and its influence on the new towns movement both in Britain and internationally.
Analyze the concept of open countryside and its influence on the greenbelt idea.
Assess the changing governance of Letchworth from the First Garden City Limited Company (1903) to the public Letchworth Garden City Corporation (1963), and the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation (1995).
