ABSTRACT
TO-MORROW: A PEACEFUL PATH TO REAL REFORM is ALMOST WITHOUT question the most important single work in the history of modern town planning. Published in October 1898, it sold well enough for its publishers, Swan Sonnenschein, to bring out a cheap paperback edition, and within a couple of years 3000 copies had been sold (Fishman, 1977, p. 54; Beevers, 1988, pp. 43, 57, 104); in 1902, it was republished as Garden Cities of To-Morrow, appearing in further editions in 1946 and 1985 (Howard, 1902, 1946, 1985); within a decade, translations were appearing. More than that: the first Garden City was under construction at Letchworth, from 1903; German Garden Cities were being planned, and the first-at Hellerau outside Dresden-would soon start building. Less than half a century later, as the result of the movement Howard set in train, an Act of Parliament would be passed under which twenty-eight planned new towns would be built in Great Britain and four in Northern Ireland.
