blog oeuvre de Emile Aillaud
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Voir photo les Courtillères
Wiki : Émile Aillaud dessine une cité-parc : un immeuble sinueux de plus d’un kilomètre de long qui enclot comme un rempart un parc d’un seul tenant, d’environ 4 ha planté de 1 500 arbres avec des pelouses de jeux, des pistes de patinage.



Le terme n'est donc pas nouveau :
...Le secteur Cras détient le taux le plus important de
plus de 65 ans du territoire bisontin. C’est un quartier
d’habitat mixte dans lequel petits pavillons et logements
collectifs (Cité Parc) construits principalement entre
1948 et 1975 cohabitent...

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Note added at 17 hrs (2012-07-19 07:47:21 GMT)
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Interesting link, also because of the idea of magnets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement


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Note added at 17 hrs (2012-07-19 08:01:18 GMT)
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Here concept of a "forest city": Milton Keynes (city and not town)
"City in the forest"

The original Development Corporation design concept aimed[15] for a "forest city" and its foresters planted millions of trees from its own nursery in Newlands in the following years. As of 2006, the urban area has 20 million trees. Following the winding up of the Development Corporation the lavish landscapes of the Grid Roads and of the major parks were transferred to The Parks Trust, a charity which is independent from the municipal authority and which was intended to resist pressures to build on the parks over time. The Parks Trust is endowed with a portfolio of commercial properties, the income of which pay for the upkeep of the green spaces, a maintenance model which has attracted international attention.[23]

Its huge park:
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Finally, five "third-generation" towns were launched in the late 1960s: these were larger, some of them based on substantial existing settlements such as Peterborough. The most famous (and to some, notorious) was probably Milton Keynes, roughly midway between London and the West Midlands, on account of its Brutalist architectural ambitions, reflecting the thinking of Alison and Peter Smithson and other British architectural idealists. Milton Keynes is known for its huge central park and shopping centre, designed from the outset as a new city – though in law it is a 'New Town'...