The Garden City: A Study in the Development of a Modern Town (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

C. B. Purdom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331898358 ISBN 13 : 9781331898351

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 modem towns in England and abroad, the Garden City was not founded by some accident or for those merely commercial reasons peculiar to mis age. It was founded like the old townsl 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. I have tried to set down something of the romance that belongs to what may be regarded as an adventurous endeavour to create a new thing in English life, and I have tried to interpret the town to those who know it merely by name. Garden City is not to be confused with the new suburbs or town-planning schemes, or even with the familiar model village. It is something quite different from them all.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331898358
• ISBN 13: 9781331898351
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
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