ABSTRACT
A politically neutered interpretation of the garden city became the model for the subsequent development of most of the housing and nonresidential areas of both the United States and Britain. The model helped capitalist society to avoid many of the basic issues concerning social justice and economic fairness. The social, economic, and architectural dimensions of town planning in the history of Radburn community in relation to the development of cities and metropolises are important, beyond histories of housing and planning in the United States. What Ebenezer Howard, a shorthand writer, was suggesting was the building of a vast network of social cities on low-cost land that was not far from London and that was abandoned by farmers. Each social city, with a population of about 250,000, would be quite self-sufficient in terms of food based on new agriculture in the greenbelts between the central city and the garden cities.
