caa a22 4500 467898324 CHVBK 20180406152810.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10708-006-9022-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10708-006-9022-3 A step ahead of time: design, allocation and preservation of private open space in the 1920s--the case of a garden suburb in Israel [Elektronische Daten] [Naftaly Goldshleger, Irit Amit-Cohen, Maxim Shoshany] In the course of the last 50years, the landscape in Israel has undergone major changes, due to accelerated urbanization following population growth. These processes had increased the pressure on the open land, especially in areas of urban expansion. Recognizing that Governments and local Municipalities had failed to stop the consequent loss of public open spaces, not only in Israel but worldwide, had lead recently many communities to adopt new solutions in the form of private open spaces. In this article we present a "step ahead of time”: a case of privately owned land, set aside as public green area during the 1920s in a neighborhood called "Ahuza Herbert Samuel” (Herbert Samuel, the first High Commissioner of Palestine under the British Mandate), located in the City of Haifa, in Northern Israel. The roots of this unique phenomenon during the 1920s could be linked to several sources of influence: Colonial town planning concepts, the emergence of garden cities and garden suburbs and most importantly to concepts brought in by the leaders of the immigrant community coming from Rumania. Photogrammetric and GIS analysis of this phenomenon had revealed that it had prevailed throughout 75years of constant and massive increase in the demand for built-up areas in Israel in general and in Ahuza neighborhood in particular. The success in preserving these open areas gains current relevance in view of recent trends in the Western world of allocating privately owned green areas for public use. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2006 Garden suburb nationallicence Private open space nationallicence Mt. Carmel Haifa nationallicence Goldshleger Naftaly Soil Erosion Research Station, Ministry of Agriculture, Emek Hefer, Israel aut Amit-Cohen Irit Department of Geography, Bar-Ilan University, Ramatgan, Israel aut Shoshany Maxim Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel aut GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 67/1(2006-09-01), 57-69 0343-2521 67:1<57 2006 67 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9022-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9022-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Goldshleger Naftaly Soil Erosion Research Station, Ministry of Agriculture, Emek Hefer, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Amit-Cohen Irit Department of Geography, Bar-Ilan University, Ramatgan, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shoshany Maxim Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 67/1(2006-09-01), 57-69 0343-2521 67:1<57 2006 67 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer