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Ebenezer Howard
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Howard, Ebenezer 

Born Jan. 29, 1850, in London; died May 1, 1928, in Welwyn Garden City. English urban planner and sociologist.

Howard lived in New York from 1872 to 1877, at which time he settled in London. Influenced by the social-utopian ideas of R. W. Emerson and E. Bellamy, he proposed the creation of garden cities and initiated the construction of the first such cities in Letchworth (1902–03) and Welwyn Garden City (1920). In 1899 he founded the Garden City Association.

WORKS

To-Morrow. London, 1898.
Garden Cities of To-Morrow. London, 1902.
In Russian translation:
Howard, E. Goroda budushchego. St. Petersburg, 1911.

REFERENCE

Macfadyen, D. Sir Ebenezer Howard and the Town Planning Movement. Cambridge [1970].


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Welwyn Garden City was one of the first garden cities, founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the 1920s and designed by Louis de Soissons.
The Garden City Movement was the brainchild of Sir Ebenezer Howard, whose Utopian ideal was affordable, well-built houses and gardens for the working classes - all set within a green and pleasant land.
It reflected the views of the pioneer of the garden city movement, Sir Ebenezer Howard, whose town planning ideas were used in the creation of Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City.
 
 
 
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