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Sociable Cities - The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Sociable Cities - The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Series: Planning, History and Environment Series
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Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the
centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard's To-morrow: A Peaceful
Path to Real Reform in 1998 - an event they then marked by
co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile
edition of Howard's original, long lost and very scarce, in 2003.
In this revised edition of Sociable Cities, sadly now without Colin
Ward, Peter Hall writes: 'the sixteen years separating the two
editions of this book seem almost like geological time. Revisiting
the 1998 edition is like going back deep into ancient history'. The
glad confident morning following Tony Blair's election has been
followed by political disillusionment, the fiscal crash, widespread
austerity and a marked anti-planning stance on the part of the
Coalition government. But - closely following the argument of Good
Cities, Better Lives: How Europe discovered the Lost Art of
Urbanism (Routledge 2013), to which this book is designed as a
companion - Hall argues that the central message is now even
stronger: we need more planning, not less. And this planning needs
to be driven by broad, high-level strategic visions - national,
regional - of the kind of country we want to see. Above all, Hall
shows in the concluding chapters, Britain's escalating housing
crisis can be resolved only by a massive programme of planned
decentralization from London, at least equal in scale to the great
Abercrombie plan seventy years ago. He sets out a picture of great
new city clusters at the periphery of South East England,
sustainably self-sufficient in their daily patterns of living and
working, but linked to the capital by new high-speed rail services.
This is a book that every planner, and every serious student of
policy-making, will want to read. Published at a time when the
political parties are preparing their policy manifestos, it is
designed to make a major contribution to a major national debate.
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