Howard's time in parliament exposed him to ideas about social reform, and helped inspire his ideas for the Garden City. Howard began to ponder ways to improve the quality of life.īy 1876, he was back in England, where he found a job with Hansard company, which produces the official verbatim record of Parliament, and he spent the rest of his life in this occupation. In the US he became acquainted with, and admired, poets Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Howard arrived in Chicago just after the great fire of 1871, which destroyed most of the central business district, and witnessed the regeneration of the city and the growth of its suburbs. He then relocated to Chicago and worked as a reporter for the courts and newspapers. He went to Nebraska, and after his farming efforts failed, discovered he did not wish to be a farmer. In 1871, at the age of 21, influenced partly by a farming uncle, Howard emigrated with two friends to America. Howard subsequently had several clerical jobs, including one with Dr Parker of the City Temple. Howard left school at 15 and began working as a stenographer in London. He was sent to schools in Suffolk and Hertfordshire. Howard was born in Fore Street, City of London, the son of Ebenezer Howard (1817–1900), a baker, and Ann (née Tow, 1816–1900). Howard is believed by many to be one of the great guides to the town planning movement, with many of his garden city principles being used in modern town planning. Howard aimed to reduce the alienation of humans and society from nature, and hence advocated garden cities and Georgism. in 1909, Radburn NJ (1923), Pinelands, Cape Town and the Suburban Resettlement Program towns of the 1930s ( Greenbelt, Maryland Greenhills, Ohio Greenbrook, New Jersey and Greendale, Wisconsin). The second true Garden City was Welwyn Garden City (1920) and the movement influenced the development of several model suburbs in other countries, such as Forest Hills Gardens designed by F. The publication resulted in the founding of the garden city movement, and the building of the first garden city, Letchworth Garden City, commenced in 1903.
Sir Ebenezer Howard OBE (29 January 1850 – ) was an English urban planner and founder of the garden city movement, known for his publication To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898), the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature.
To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Englandįounder of the garden city movement in England
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