The Art of Building a Garden City

CONTENTS

VII Foreword

VIII Sponsors

IX Acknowledgements

X About the Authors

1 INTRODUCTION

7 1 A SHORT HISTORY OF

THE UTOPIAN TRADITION

7 16th Century:

Thomas More’s Utopia

8 17th Century: Land and Freedom

9 18th & Early 19th Century:

The New Industrial Age

12 Late 19th Century:

The Arts and Crafts Movement

15 Ebenezer Howard and the Garden

City Vision

17 2 THE GARDEN CITIES

17 Letchworth: The World’s First

Garden City

23 The Impact of the First World War

25 Welwyn Garden City: Howard’s

Second Experiment

27 Lessons From the Garden Cities

32 A Nation on the Edge of Change

33 3 NEW TOWN UTOPIA

33 Postwar Britain

34 Osborn’s Patient ...