ABSTRACT
Ebenezer Howard's books To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform published in 1898 and Garden Cities of To-morrow, a slightly revised version of the former published in 1902, are among the most influential in the history of modern town planning (Howard, 1898, 1902). In these small volumes Howard introduced the concept of ‘garden cities’ and described means of establishing and multiplying them. Garden cities are posed explicitly as an alternative to the overgrown and congested industrial city and the depressed depopulated countryside. Each garden city would be carefully planned in a rural setting and limited in area and population. It was not a fusion of town and country that was proposed, but a town in the country whose citizens could enjoy the best qualities of town and country life, with opportunity to work and with ample space to live. Crucially, the garden city would be built on land belonging to the local community and designed and developed in the public interest.
