ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the twentieth century two great new inventions took form before our eyes: the aeroplane and the Garden City, both harbingers of a new age: the first gave man wings and the second promised him a better dwelling-place when he came down to earth. (Lewis Mumford, in his preface to the 1946 edition of Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of To-morrow, p. 29.)
