Main entry:

Buder, Stanley.

Title & Author:

Visionaries and planners : the garden city movement and the modern community / Stanley Buder.

Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Description:

xii, 260 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm (8vo)

Restrictions:

Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-250) and index.
An Inward Quest -- Land Reform in an Urban Age -- Ebenezer Howard and Hard Times -- The American Cooperative Commonwealth -- Toward a New Urban Vision: Howard in the 1890s -- The Search for Environment -- The Building of a Garden City, 1899-1920 -- The Garden City and Town Planning, 1903-1918 -- Howard and Welwyn Garden City, 1910-1940 -- The International Movement, 1900-1940 -- The Garden City Movement in America, 1900-1941 -- British New Towns, 1945-1980 -- The Future of the Garden City.
Catalogue of the James J. Kopp Collection, 408
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

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, reinforced 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.

Resources:
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Table of contents
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0195061748 (alk. paper)
9780195061741 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Howard, Ebenezer 1850-1928
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Garden cities.
Garden cities United States.
Cités-jardins.
Cités-jardins États-Unis.
garden cities.
Gartenstadt
Geschichte
Stadtplanung
Tuinsteden.
New Towns.
Garden cities Great Britain History.
Garden cities United States History.
United States
USA
Cities Environment planning History
Great Britain

Holdings:

Location: Library main 72684
Call No.: ID:92-B1329
Status: Available