Design Guidelines for 21st century Garden Cities | Journal paper

Liaros, S. (2021) A network of circular economy villages: design guidelines for 21st century Garden Cities, Built Environment Project and Asset Management, Vol. 12 No. 3, pp. 349—364. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-01-2021-0004 

Download the full text of the Author Accepted Manuscript. This is a post-peer-reviewed, pre-copyedit version of an article to be published in a special issue of Built Environment Project and Asset Management. The special issue will relate to Smart Villages, Rural Infrastructure and Sustainable Development. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-01-2021-0004

ABSTRACT
This paper advances the development of a hypothetical, systems-based approach to the design and development of smart rural villages – a network of circular economy villages (CEVs). The method is to assimilate visionary ideas from 20th century town planning literature related to decentralisation and the development of new towns in rural areas, identifying key design principles. The present trajectory of infrastructure design and emerging development models are then analysed to modernise the design principles for implementation in the 21st century.