Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #310664 in Books
• Published on: 1965-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Customer Reviews

A landmark publication
One of the most far-sighted publications of the last 100 years or so. Within five years much of what the book proposed became reality when Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire was founded with 1903 - that is astounding enough. But the real fact is that almost anyone who lives in a town or city anywhere has been affected by this book, and the movement it launched. The very notion of town planning began here. New towns, green belts, zoning - so many things about the modern urban environment - worldwide - began with this book.

It was even more far sighted than that and it gives us a glimpse of what might have been but for the Great War, perhaps.

But this is no dry historical text - it is still relevent today. 100 years on something very like the network of Garden Cities Howard proposes is again being discussed.