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Ebenezer Howard : inventor of the Garden City / Frances Knight.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knight, Frances, author.
- Series:
- Spiritual lives.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Spiritual lives
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planners--Great Britain--Biography.
- City planners.
- Garden cities--Great Britain--History.
- Garden cities.
- Howard, Ebenezer, Sir, 1850-1928.
- Howard, Ebenezer.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (166 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Ebenezer Howard founded the Garden City movement, and he continues to be cited by planners and theorists. This book presents a properly contextualized analysis of Howard's religious views. It investigates neglected aspects of his life, and provides a significant new interpretation of the Garden City movement.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Ebenezer Howard: the Man and the Message
- 1. The Early Years of Exploration 1850-1876
- The City childhood
- The minister's secretary
- The American adventurer
- 2. Laying the Foundations 1876-1889
- Early married life
- Spiritualism
- The turn to the social gospel and the housing and land questions
- 3. The Days before To-morrow 1890-1898
- Early drafts and speeches
- The Howard family in the 1890s
- To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform
- 4. The Path to the First Garden City 1899-1904
- The Garden City Association
- The final years of Lizzie Howard
- Opening the Letchworth estate
- 5. Howard in Letchworth 1905-1914
- Moving to the Garden City
- Building Letchworth
- Cooperative housekeeping
- The growing industrial town
- The 'founder and Garden City pioneer'
- 6. The Spiritual Life of the First Garden City 1904-1918
- A blank canvas?
- The evangelical free churches
- Non-evangelical free churches, and esoteric and free-thought traditions
- The Garden City Adult School
- Adrian Fortescue and Roman Catholicism
- Letchworth and the War
- 7. Howard and Welwyn - the Second Garden City 1919-1928
- The Garden City relaunched
- Welwyn's development
- Howard's final years
- Conclusion: Ebenezer Howard: A Spiritual Life
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Series Information.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 23, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Knight, Frances Ebenezer Howard
- ISBN:
- 0-19-183326-6
- 0-19-250815-6
- 0-19-250816-4
- OCLC:
- 1381709123
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