Front gardens help to make towns and cities worth living in. They can make walking a pleasure, promote sociability, contribute to biodiversity, reduce the danger of flooding and make streets safer. But too many are neglected, contributing nothing to the quality of the place. Every year thousands of front gardens are paved over.
Rob Cowan is an urbanist, writer, editor and cartoonist with UDS. His many publications include the Dictionary of Urbanism and Plandemonium. He is editor of the journal Context.
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