THE NEIGHBOURHOOD UNIT PRINCIPLE AND ORGANIC THEORY.

The article provides an insight to the neighborhood unit principle and the organic theory. An organic city is such that its form and structure is one with its purpose and the purpose of the organic city is to create a life enhancing environment for man living in communities. The organic city would provide the stimulation of diversity, and a maximum of contrast, contained within an over-riding unity. The concept most widely accepted by protagonists of organic town planning is that of the "neighborhood unit." The neighborhood unit is a technical term for a planning device. The neighborhood unit is a geographical and social area predicated by the territorial group, which constitutes the neighborhood. The garden suburbs attempted the creation of residential areas more pleasant and therefore more distinctive than that provided by land speculators and developers. The centralization of social facilities tended to make the garden suburb more inward looking. The classic definition of the neighborhood unit is of a residential area's size, boundaries, open spaces, institution sites, local shops and internal street system.