Poundbury

50.713333333333 - 2.4652777777778Koordinaten: 50 ° 43 ' N, 2 ° 28 ' W

The British village of Poundbury in Dorchester in the county of Dorset is a model city to implement the principles of sustainable development and the design principles that the British heir to the throne Prince Charles has pointed out in his book A Vision Of Britain. Prince Charles was instrumental in the conception and implementation, together with the Luxembourg city planner and architectural theorist Leon Krier. The settlement was built on leased land of the Duchy of Cornwall.

The overall architectural concept is based on a rejection of the design principles of modernity and focuses instead on classical and traditional architecture. It belongs to mix in a small urban fabric of the concept, social housing and private homes. Poundbury is an example of the movement of New Urbanism, which was founded as a reaction against the increasingly escalating urban sprawl of landscape in the early 1990s.

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Hall in historicizing design