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The Peaceful Path: Building Garden Cities and New Towns
Stephen Ward
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Description for The Peaceful Path: Building Garden Cities and New Towns
Paperback. Planning historian Stephen Ward offers a timely new history of garden cities and new towns with the Hertfordshire exemplars as its focus. Yet this is not just a work of history: The Peaceful Path also examines the contemporary relevance of Ebenezer Howard's vision. Num Pages: 352 pages, 111 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: AMVD; HBJD1; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 712.
The title of this book is taken from Ebenezer Howard's visionary tract To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Published in 1898 as a manifesto for social reform via the creation of Garden Cities, it proposed a new way of providing cheap and healthy homes, workplaces and green spaces in balance in cohesive new communities, underpinned by radical ideas about collective land ownership. While Howard's vision had international impact, in this book planning historian Stephen Ward largely honors the special place that Hertfordshire occupies on the peaceful path, beginning with the development of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden Cities.
The title of this book is taken from Ebenezer Howard's visionary tract To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Published in 1898 as a manifesto for social reform via the creation of Garden Cities, it proposed a new way of providing cheap and healthy homes, workplaces and green spaces in balance in cohesive new communities, underpinned by radical ideas about collective land ownership. While Howard's vision had international impact, in this book planning historian Stephen Ward largely honors the special place that Hertfordshire occupies on the peaceful path, beginning with the development of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden Cities.
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Hertfordshire Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
712g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Hatfield, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909291690
SKU
V9781909291690
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-25
About Stephen Ward
Stephen V. Ward is Professor of Planning History at Oxford Brookes University. He is a former President of the International Planning History Society and was for several years Editor of the international academic journal, Planning Perspectives. He has produced several books on twentieth-century planning, including The Garden City: Past, Present, Future.
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