A man of simple background but endowed with a disciplined and original mind, Ebenezer Howard was no flamboyant revolutionary but a visionary whose inventive gifts and common sense helped him to produce an original concept of social living, together with the means of making it reality. His lack of social advantages proves to be his strength, for his own life was near to the experience of those whose economic and spiritual poverty he sought to alleviate. He won support through his practical schemes as outlined in his writings and by his persuasive oratory on the platform rather than in the...