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Sir Ebenezer Howard and the Town Planning Movement by Dugald MacFayden is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sir Ebenezer Howard and the Town Planning Movement about?
Sir Ebenezer Howard is universally recognized as the father of the new towns (or garden cities) movement. This biography, originally published in 1933, is being reissued now to serve the revival of interest in new towns as a viable alternative to the urban chaos and suburban sprawl that deface the planet with physical ugliness and social inequity.The book presents the personal aspects of Howard's life and a detailed account of the planning and building of the new towns of Letchworth and Welwyn. Howard's personal life and his work were cross-coupled to an unusual degree, but in order to see both the man and the movement more clearly, the author presents each in turn in a series of paralleling but separate chapters. The leading contemporary authority on the new towns movement, Sir Frederic Osborn, has noted that the book is “somewhat informally arranged, but contains all essential facts about Howard, and many interesting personal impressions.”Lewis Mumford has placed Howard in the perspective of our time with this tribute: “Until Ebenezer Howard came forth with his proposals in To-Morrow no one had the audacity to conceive a new form for the city, which would utilize the facilities o
Who reads Sir Ebenezer Howard and the Town Planning Movement?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dugald MacFayden
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 1970
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262130660
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, Social Science, Arts