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Ebenezer Howard : inventor of the Garden City /

"Ebenezer Howard (1850–1928) is famous worldwide for founding the Garden City movement, and interest in him remains strong. This is the first full-scale biography to be published since the 1980s. It explains the remarkable sequence of events that led from the publication of his ideas to the fou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Knight, Frances (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Spiritual lives (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:
Howard, Ebenezer, > Sir, > 1850-1928.
Howard, Ebenezer, > Sir, > 1850-1928
City planners > Great Britain > Biography.
Garden cities > England > History.
Planned communities > England > History.
Cités-jardins > Angleterre > Histoire.
Urbanistes > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Religious.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Great Britain.
Europe.
HISTORY.
City Planning & Urban Development.
Public Policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Christian Life.
RELIGION.
Garden cities
Planned communities
England
Biography & non-fiction prose.
Biography.
Electronic books.
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ebenezer Howard: the Man and the Message
  • 1. The Early Years of Exploration 1850-1876
  • The City childhood
  • The minister's secretary
  • The American adventurer
  • 2. Laying the Foundations 1876-1889
  • Early married life
  • Spiritualism
  • The turn to the social gospel and the housing and land questions
  • 3. The Days before To-morrow 1890-1898
  • Early drafts and speeches
  • The Howard family in the 1890s
  • To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform
  • 4. The Path to the First Garden City 1899-1904
  • The Garden City Association
  • The final years of Lizzie Howard
  • Opening the Letchworth estate
  • 5. Howard in Letchworth 1905-1914
  • Moving to the Garden City
  • Building Letchworth
  • Cooperative housekeeping
  • The growing industrial town
  • The 'founder and Garden City pioneer'
  • 6. The Spiritual Life of the First Garden City 1904-1918
  • A blank canvas?
  • The evangelical free churches
  • Non-evangelical free churches, and esoteric and free-thought traditions
  • The Garden City Adult School
  • Adrian Fortescue and Roman Catholicism
  • Letchworth and the War
  • 7. Howard and Welwyn
  • the Second Garden City 1919-1928
  • The Garden City relaunched
  • Welwyn's development
  • Howard's final years
  • Conclusion: Ebenezer Howard: A Spiritual Life
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
  • Series Information