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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449691603321

Autore

Buder Stanley

Titolo

Visionaries and planners [[electronic resource] ] : the garden city movement and the modern community / / Stanley Buder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1990

ISBN

1-280-52439-1

1-4237-3722-9

0-19-536288-8

1-60129-752-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

307.76/8

Soggetti

Garden cities

Garden cities - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 1890's; 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

Sommario/riassunto

For nearly a century the Garden City movement has represented one end of a continuum in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city. In 1898 Ebenezer Howard envisioned an experimental community as the alternative to huge, teeming cities. Small, planned ""garden cities"" girdled by greenbelts were to serve in time as the ""master key"" to a higher, more cooperative stage of civilization based on ecologically balanced communities. Howard soon founded an international planning movement which ever since has represented a remarkable blend of accommodation to and protest against urban