Discuss the Garden City Movement, how it occurred and the influences on planning today.
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HOWARD'S GARDEN CITY MOVEMENT Neil Morbey, PLYMOUTH, 11/08/82 Discuss the Garden City Movement, how it occurred and the influences on planning today. In 1902 a book was published, entitled: Garden cities of To-morrow. It was written By Ebenezer Howard and it set out his plan for creating better neighbourhoods, cities, regions, nations and a better society. It did this through diagrams and explanations of his ideals. Some describe it as a dream, an impossible utopia. Yet it is one of the greatest influences of Town planning today. So how did Howard, a man who had very little town planning background, create such a book? His influences are many. If you were to look chronologically at past models of city ideals you could start with that of the Greeks with Miletus, a complete planned city. Or the Kaogongji, of the ancient Chinese. Principle traditions to create perfect cities. Indeed Plato was the one of the...


