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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823261803321

Autore

Buder Stanley

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1990

ISBN

0-19-771768-3

1-280-52439-1

1-4237-3722-9

0-19-536288-8

1-60129-752-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 260 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Disciplina

307.76/8

Soggetti

Garden cities

Garden cities - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

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

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 development. Much of the city planning which formed the basis for the Garden City movement was based upon designing the ideal community. But this sense of idealism was soon lost with the transfer of the movement to America, and



indeed it was unable to sustain itself in the communities of its origin in England.