For nearly a century the Garden City movement has represented one end of a continuum in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city. In 1898 Ebenezer Howard envisioned an experimental community as the alternative to huge, teeming cities. Small, planned "garden cities" girdled by greenbelts were to serve in time as the "master key" to a higher, more cooperative stage of civilization based on ecologically balanced communities. Howard soon founded an international planning movement which ever since has represented a ...
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For nearly a century the Garden City movement has represented one end of a continuum in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city. In 1898 Ebenezer Howard envisioned an experimental community as the alternative to huge, teeming cities. Small, planned "garden cities" girdled by greenbelts were to serve in time as the "master key" to a higher, more cooperative stage of civilization based on ecologically balanced communities. Howard soon founded an international planning movement which ever since has represented a remarkable blend of accommodation to and protest against urban changes and the rise of the suburbs. In this interconnected history of the Garden City movement in the United States and Britain, Buder examines its influence, strengths and limitations. Howard's garden city, he shows, joined together two very different types of late-nineteenth-century experimental communities, creating a tension never fully resolved. One approach, utopian and radical in nature, challenged conventional values; the other, the model industrial towns of "enlightened" capitalists, reinforceed them. Buder traces this tension through planning history from the nineteenth-century world of visionaries, philanthropy, and self help into our own with its reliance on the expert, bureaucracy, and governmental policy, shedding light on the complex changes in the way we have thought in the twentieth century about community, urban design, and indeed the process of change. His final chapters examine the world-wide enthusiasm for "New Towns" between 1945-1975 and recent political and social trends which challenge many fundamental assumptions of modern planning.
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B&W Photographs/Plans/Maps; James Hatfield Cover Art. Near Fine in Near Fine (in mylar) jacket. Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Gift quality copy, inked price along gutter of rear endpaper; Textblock immaculate and tight, b&w photographs, floor plans, and maps. All page edges are straight and sound; Unclipped dust jacket, light edge wear. 260p., including notes and index.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" (USA) 1st printing. No markings, the top edge of pages is lightly foxed, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket in mylar sleeve. Boards, xiv, 260pp, index, B&W illus. This book looks at the strengths and limitations of the Garden City Movement in the United States and Britain. (2.1 JM HOJ 301/a2.
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VG-(First page carries lavish signature of former architect-designer owner; dj has small tear at top front; edges of book block have some instances of faint foxing; page surfaces are clean. ) Light green paper boards with dark green cloth spine, gilt letters on spine, canary & illus. dust jacket, 260 pp. "In 1898, the then unknown Ebenezer Howard proposed an experimental community as the alternative to huge, teeming cities. small, planned 'garden cities' girdled by greenbelts were to serve as the 'master key' to a higher, more cooperative stage of civilization based on ecologically balanced communities. Howard soon founded an international planning movement which ever since has represented a remarkable blend of accommodation to and protest against urban changes and the rise of the suburbs. For nearly a century the Garden City movement has actively participated in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city." (dj).
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 750grams, ISBN: 9780195061741.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 750grams, ISBN: 9780195061741.
