This book traces the history of a campaign that took place over nearly half a century, from the last years of the Victorian era to the new world of post-World War II Britain. It was a campaign that started with the simple aim of spreading the idea of the garden city - a concept dating from the 1890s -, and of encouraging others to build these settlements as a humane response to the slum housing of the industrial cities. Within a few years of the start of the campaign, the first garden city was built at Letchworth.
This book traces the history of a campaign that took place over nearly half a century, from the last years of the Victorian era to the new world of po...
A sequel to From Garden Cities to New Towns, this volume describes the history of the Town and Country Planning Association from the 1946 New Towns Act to the present. The book has three objectives: to offer a record of a sustained campaign by an organization that has its origins in the garden city movement, but which has long since held a wider brief for town and country planning; to demonstrate the workings of a pressure group - an insight of added value at a time when such groups have achieved an important place in environmental politics; and to place the campaign in a broader context of...
A sequel to From Garden Cities to New Towns, this volume describes the history of the Town and Country Planning Association from the 1946 New Towns Ac...
England in the early part of the twentieth century was rich in utopian ventures - diverse and intriguing in their scope and aims. Two world wars, an economic depression, and the emergence of fascist states in Europe were all a spur to idealists to seek new limits - to escape from the here and now, and to create sanctuaries for new and better lives. Dennis Hardy explores this fascinating history of utopian ideals, the lives of those who pursued them, and the utopian communities they created. Some communities were fired by a long tradition of land movements, others by thoughts of more...
England in the early part of the twentieth century was rich in utopian ventures - diverse and intriguing in their scope and aims. Two world wars, an e...
England in the early part of the twentieth century was rich in utopian ventures - diverse and intriguing in their scope and aims. Two world wars, an economic depression, and the emergence of fascist states in Europe were all a spur to idealists to seek new limits - to escape from the here and now, and to create sanctuaries for new and better lives. Dennis Hardy explores this fascinating history of utopian ideals, the lives of those who pursued them, and the utopian communities they created. Some communities were fired by a long tradition of land movements, others by thoughts of more...
England in the early part of the twentieth century was rich in utopian ventures - diverse and intriguing in their scope and aims. Two world wars, an e...
