ABSTRACT
In his book Garden Cities of Tomorrow (originally published in 1898), Ebenezer Howard articulated a vision for future development that still shapes our thinking about cities, suburbs, and undeveloped lands. Howard’s Garden Cities model called for a development pattern in which a large central city is established as the hub of the region’s economy and surrounding this central city are a constellation of smaller towns, all separated quite visibly and deliberately by large swaths of undeveloped green spaces and/or active agricultural lands. Howard believed that this model offered a desirable mix of both urban and country life.
