Visionaries and planners : the garden city movement and the modern community

Visionaries and planners : the garden city movement and the modern community / Stanley Buder.

In this book, Stanley Buder examines the Garden City movement from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century England to its subsequent development and elaboration in twentieth- century America. The Garden City movement emphasized green belts around cities but was not identified exclusively with suburban...

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Main Author: Buder, Stanley
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
Subjects:
Garden cities.
Garden cities > United States.
garden cities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Garden cities
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. An Inward Quest; 2. Land Reform in an Urban Age; 3. Ebenezer Howard and Hard Times; 4. The American Cooperative Commonwealth; 5. Toward a New Urban Vision: Howard in the 1890s; 6. The Search for Environment; 7. The Building of a Garden City, 1899-1920; 8. The Garden City and Town Planning, 1903-1918; 9. Howard and Welwyn Garden City, 1910-1940; 10. The International Movement, 1900-1940; 11. The Garden City Movement in America, 1900-1941; 12. British New Towns, 1945-1980; 13. The Future of the Garden City; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index

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