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The Garden City Utopia

A Critical Biography of Ebenezer Howard

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  • © 1988

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  1. Robert Beevers
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Young Ebenezer

    • Robert Beevers
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Dissenter

    • Robert Beevers
    Pages 9-24

  4. Commonsense Socialism

    • Robert Beevers
    Pages 25-39

  5. From Unionville to Garden City

    • Robert Beevers
    Pages 40-54

  6. A Unique Combination of Proposals

    • Robert Beevers
    Pages 55-67

  7. The Evangelist and the Sceptic

    • Robert Beevers
    Pages 68-78

  8. Managing Director

    • Robert Beevers
    Pages 79-91

  9. The Ideal City Made Practicable

    • Robert Beevers
    Pages 92-107

  10. Housing a Co-operative Community

    • Robert Beevers
    Pages 108-117

  11. The Spirit of the Place

    • Robert Beevers
    Pages 118-132

  12. The Path Followed Up

    • Robert Beevers
    Pages 133-144

  13. A Hundred New Towns

    • Robert Beevers
    Pages 145-157

  14. Second Garden City

    • Robert Beevers
    Pages 158-167

  15. A Heroic Simpleton?

    • Robert Beevers
    Pages 168-184

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 185-206
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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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