greenbelt

His emphasis on greenbelt areas and controlled population densities has become an integral part of suburban and city planning as well.

…metropolitan area with an inviolate greenbelt, construction of new towns beyond the greenbelt that would allow for lowering of population densities in the inner city, and the building of circumferential highways to divert traffic from the core. The concept of the sharp separation of city from country prevailed also throughout…

…of the post-World War II Green Belt runs quite comfortably along the encircling hills of the London Basin—the long ridge of the downs to the south of London and, to the north, the more broken chain of heights running from Iver Heath (above Heathrow Airport) clockwise through Ruislip Common, Bushey…

…E4 reaches out into the Green Belt to the extreme north, while E14 is the Isle of Dogs business district close by the City. Moreover, the outer boundaries of the London Postal Area fall short of the administrative and physical boundaries of the metropolis, giving several thousand suburbanites a postal…

…although planning controls such as greenbelts have restricted the urban sprawl of London since the mid-20th century. While fully one-third of the South East is still devoted to farming or horticulture, the region as a whole also has an extensive range of manufacturing industry. With improvements in the transportation systems,…