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

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

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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.

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

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