Town Planning and Modern Architecture in the Hampstead Garden Suburb.
(Hampstead Garden Suburb Development Com- pany, Limited, 32 Theobald's Road. 6d. net.)—The idea of the company is to plan a town so that it may not be spoilt by indi- vidual eccentricity or bad taste. It has been done at Letchworth in what is known as the first Garden City, and at Earswick, and now we have a scheme which is in process of development at Hampstead. We have instances, imperfect indeed, but still of no little significance, of this kind of thing elsewhere. Eastbourne and Westgate-on-Sea contrast favourably with most seaside towns ; and any one may see the haphazard and the systematic systems side by side at Bexhill-on-Sea. But the aim of this company is at something more complete and harmonious, and we wish it all prosperity. The drawings and buildings erecting or proposed to be erected on the Hampstead Garden Suburb are many of them extremely pleasing. The house portrayed in the frontispiece, designed by Mr. Bailie Scott, is quite delightful.
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