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From Garden Cities to New Towns - Campaigning for Town and Country Planning 1899-1946 (Hardcover)
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From Garden Cities to New Towns - Campaigning for Town and Country Planning 1899-1946 (Hardcover)
Series: Planning, History and Environment Series
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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. The author
records the history of the campaign and sets out to assess the
political influence of the Garden City Association as an
environmental pressure group. In the 20th century, the association
was drawn into wider debates about the role of the State as opposed
to the kind of private and voluntary initiatives that had led to
the foundation of Letchworth. In this book, the campaign is set in
the wider context of the social, political and economic change of
the 20th century. The last stages of the campaign saw the
introduction of a national programme for new towns in 1946 and the
author argues that the campaigners had to accept that these new
towns were of a different g
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