TY - BOOK ID - 36763340 TI - The garden city utopia: a critical biography of Ebenezer Howard PY - 1988 SN - 1349190357 1349190330 0333423755 PB - London Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Architecture. KW - Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). KW - Cities, Countries, Regions. KW - Architecture, Western (Western countries) KW - Building design KW - Buildings KW - Construction KW - Western architecture (Western countries) KW - Art KW - Building KW - Design and construction KW - Urban geography. KW - Geography KW - City planners KW - Garden cities KW - Howard, Ebenezer, KW - Cities and towns KW - Greenbelts KW - Town planners KW - Urbanists KW - Architects KW - Planners UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:36763340 AB - 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. ER -