In recent times there have been a variety of approaches to the designation and design of urban open-space. The major concepts involved are those of the nineteenth century American Romantic Suburb; the Company Towns; the Garden City; the New Towns of post W.W. II Britain, and their Biological corridors; and more recently, the concepts of the Green Wedge, the Dutch “Woonerf” and the Green City. In all these concepts the role that the space is to play has been the fundamental issue. The function of open-space has resulted from the attitudes and values held by society at the time. To clarify this relationship between spatial concept and function, one must look at it in its historical context.

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