Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City

Ebenezer Howard is at once recognized as the originator of town planning and excluded from the pantheon of pioneering British planners. He was a minor clerk who until middle age had never given any indication that he was capable of originality or leadership but, for his intellectual achievement in f...

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Published in:Journal of the American Planning Association 1998-04, Vol.64 (2), p.125-127
Main Authors: Richert, Evan D., Lapping, Mark B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Architecture
Area planning & development
Biographies
Cities
Community development
Ebeneezer Howard
Economic rent
Editorials
Garden cities
History
Howard, Ebenezer (1850-1928)
Personal profiles
Pioneers
Planners
Planning
Residential areas
United Kingdom
Urban environment
Urban planning
Utopianism
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Summary:Ebenezer Howard is at once recognized as the originator of town planning and excluded from the pantheon of pioneering British planners. He was a minor clerk who until middle age had never given any indication that he was capable of originality or leadership but, for his intellectual achievement in founding the Garden City movement, ended up an English knight. When Howard dreamed, wrote, and built at the end of the 19th century and early in the 20th century, the countryside was emptying into ever more concentrated, congested, and unhealthy cities. The main concern was the well-being and housing of an impoverished urban working class. According to Lewis Mumford, it wasin its urbanity, not its horticulture, that the Garden City made a bold departure from the established method of building and planning.
ISSN:0194-4363
1939-0130
DOI:10.1080/01944369808975966