ABSTRACT
There is a general consensus of opinion that the continual growth of our large cities and the decline of population in country districts is an unhealthy sign…The only remedy-setting on one side as contrary to English institutions, anything in the nature of enforced migration-must therefore be through the discovery of a form of life possessing greater attraction than our present cities possess. (GCA Tract No. 1, September 1899)
Towards the close of the last century, in June 1899, a new organization was formed, with the basic aim of campaigning for the adoption of garden cities. Along this road, believed the founders of the organization, lay the route to the new form of life called for in its first public circular [1]. True to its beliefs, the Garden City Association (which changed its name in 1909 to the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, and, again, in 1941, to the Town and Country Planning Association) achieved its first success with the foundation of Letchworth Garden City in 1903; and, immediately after the First World War, a second garden city was established at Welwyn.
