| Description | This document includes a typescript of Taylor Cadbury's article attached to a letter from Ann Wilde, the Assistant Editor of 'Town and Country Planning', the journal of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, which explains the purpose for which it was written.
In July 1937 Ann Wilde wrote to Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury asking if she would be willing to contribute to 'a symposium of prominent women on the question of the overgrowth of London and other large cities' to be featured in the August edition of the journal. Noting Taylor Cadbury's interest 'in all social problems', Ann Wilde requested a 'short statement' of her 'views' on 'the desirability of decentralising the industries' and creating satellite towns with their own green belt areas.
In her statement Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury remarks that the overgrowth of cities had caused a detrimental loss of agricultural land, adding that insufficient areas were provided for playing fields. Dismissing the usefulness of 'flats in central areas', Taylor Cadbury advocates the building of satellite towns referring to her experiences as the Chairman of the Bournville Village Trust. She suggests that owing to efficient planning, the Trust had been able to provide 'gardens, parks and playing fields', as well as halls and churches to foster 'community life'. |