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

Buder, Stanley.

Visionaries and planners : the garden city movement and the modern community / Stanley Buder. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1990. - 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

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

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

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.

1423737229 (electronic bk.) 9781423737223 (electronic bk.) 0195362888 9780195362886 9780195061741 (Cloth) 0195061748 (Cloth) 1280524391 9781280524394 (alk. paper)


Garden cities.
Garden cities--United States.
Cités-jardins.
Cités-jardins--États-Unis.
garden cities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--Urban.
Garden cities.


United States.

Cities Environment planning History Great Britain United States


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

HT161 / .B84 1990eb

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