Main entry:

Meacham, Standish.

Title & Author:

Regaining paradise : Englishness and the early garden city movement / Standish Meacham.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1999.

Description:

viii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-203) and index.
1. Introduction: The Matter of Englishness -- 2. Bournville and Port Sunlight: The Exemplars -- 3. Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City Association -- 4. Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin: Principles and Practice -- 5. Letchworth: Best Laid Plans -- 6. Letchworth: "The Spirit of the Place," -- 7. Suburban High-Mindedness at Hampstead -- 8. Epilogue.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This book considers the British social reform movement at the beginning of the twentieth century through the lens of the garden city movement, a plan to build new communities on open land that would provide a healthy, aesthetically pleasing environment free from overcrowding and pollution. Standish Meacham argues that although the garden city movement initially embodied radical schemes for the reformation of society, it became in the hands of its upper-middle-class proponents a device for maintaining the established order in the face of threatening social change. In the complex clash between conservative and progressive impulses among garden city proponents, conservatism ultimately prevailed.

ISBN:

0300075723 (alk. paper)
9780300075724 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Garden cities England History.
Planned communities England History.
National characteristics, English.
English.
Cités-jardins Angleterre Histoire.
Collectivités nouvelles Angleterre Histoire.
Anglais.
Garden cities
Planned communities
Tuinsteden.
Sociale hervormingen.
Sociale bewegingen.
SOCIOLOGIA URBANA.
PLANEJAMENTO TERRITORIAL URBANO.
JARDINS (HISTÓRIA) INGLATERRA.
England

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204722
Call No.: HT164.G7 M43 1999
Status: Available