The model village and its cottages : $b Bournville

"The Model Village and its Cottages: Bournville" by William Alexander Harvey is an early 20th-century architectural exploration of Bournville, a model community envisioned by the Cadbury brothers to address housing problems for factory employees. The writing argues for homes designed not just for looks, but also to boost well-being through intentional design and community focus. Introducing the project, Harvey notes the reasons and aims to design a thorough examination of Bournville houses. He points out how poor housing was at the time and pushes for answers that are attractive and possible to achieve at the same time without cutting corners on what people need. He tells how Bournville started as a fix to these problems, explaining what it was trying to do and its intended positive effects on village life. Harvey hopes to encourage those in house design to think of the big picture and to root people in their neighborhoods, laying a foundation for new communities to be built on.