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Garden Cities of Tomorrow (Paper Only) (Faber Paper Covered Editions)
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #379931 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.
