Ebenezer Howard is recognised as a pioneer of town planning throughout the industrialised world; Britain's new towns, deriving from the garden cities he founded, are his monument. But Howard was more than a town planner. He was first and foremost a social reformer, and his garden city was intended to be merely the first step towards a new social and industrial order based on common ownership of land. This is the first comprehensive study of Howard's theories, which the author traces back to their origins in English puritan dissent and forward to Howard's attempt to build his new society in microcosm at Letchworth and Welwyn.

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Book Title: The Garden City Utopia
Book Subtitle: A Critical Biography of Ebenezer Howard
Authors: Robert Beevers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19033-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-42375-2Published: 02 February 1988
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-19035-5Published: 01 January 1988
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-19033-1Published: 02 February 1988
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 206
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Cities, Countries, Regions

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