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Excerpt from The Garden City: A Study in the Development of a Modern Town
IT is ten years ago this month since the making of the Garden City of Letchworth was begun, and the writing of this book is an endeavour to give an account of the building of the town and to restate the original ideas that brought it into being. Unlike almost all modern towns in England and abroad, the City was not founded by some accident or for those merely commercial reasons peculiar to this age. It was founded like the old towns were founded - consciously, purposely, and for definite ends. It was designed with the object of showing that the development of the towns of England need not be left to chance or to the mercy of speculators, and with the further object of making town life tolerable to people who have come to hate it not merely as William Morris hated it because of its ugliness and grime, but because it is a menace to the vitality of the race. The aim of those who have established the Garden City has been to defeat the evils inherent in all great cities by an attempt to revive the small town under twentieth-century conditions. The significance of the new town, so far as the home, manufacture, and agriculture and all the things bound up with them are concerned, is the subject of this book.
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IT is ten years ago this month since the making of the Garden City of Letchworth was begun, and the writing of this book is an endeavour to give an account of the building of the town and to restate the original ideas that brought it into being. Unlike almost all modern towns in England and abroad, the City was not founded by some accident or for those merely commercial reasons peculiar to this age. It was founded like the old towns were founded - consciously, purposely, and for definite ends. It was designed with the object of showing that the development of the towns of England need not be left to chance or to the mercy of speculators, and with the further object of making town life tolerable to people who have come to hate it not merely as William Morris hated it because of its ugliness and grime, but because it is a menace to the vitality of the race. The aim of those who have established the Garden City has been to defeat the evils inherent in all great cities by an attempt to revive the small town under twentieth-century conditions. The significance of the new town, so far as the home, manufacture, and agriculture and all the things bound up with them are concerned, is the subject of this book.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
C. B. Purdom
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780267679591
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Page Count - 446
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Contributors
Author
C. B. Purdom
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781331898351
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Page Count - 448
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