ABSTRACT
The 1932 East Tilbury, though a garden city in spirit, was designed by Czech architects; its buildings are strictly modernist, as promoted by Congres Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne on the continent. The urbanists’ ideological statements are less celebrated than those of the garden city proponents. Geddes considered the purpose of city planning and, implicitly, urban design to be the fulfillment of physical, economic, and social needs based on a conservationist view of the design task. Unusual among urban designers was the British garden city enthusiasts’ explicit recognition that property developments have to return a profit on the capital invested. A few early-twentieth-century architects did speculate on what the future city should/would be like on the basis of their extrapolations of what they perceived to be trends in the technological developments of the time.
