Poundbury case study
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- Created on: 05-06-18 19:32
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- Poundbury.
- A more recent aristocratic project than Milton Abbas, with a more philanthropic approach.
- Characteristics of Poundbury
- Good community
- Pedestrians at centre of design process.
- Traditional -style housing
- Lower income houses integrated
- Factories, shops, offices & facilities dispersed amongst residential neighbourhoods.
- unfinished
- started in 1993
- 86% of residents are glad they moved
- lots of retired residents
- safer, more green space for families.
- Good community
- A new town, on the edge of Dorchester.
- Patron is HRH the Prince of Wales, who is famously outspoken about British architecture.
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