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The British New Towns: A Programme without a Policy

Meryl Aldridge - Social Science - 2017 - 240 pages
First published in 1979. Concern about the processes at work in Britain’s urban areas, coupled with steep declines in the population projections, led to a review of urban and ...
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Peaceful Path: Building Garden Cities and New Towns

Stephen Ward - History - 2016 - 408 pages
The title of this book is taken from Ebenezer Howard's visionary tract To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Published in 1898 as a manifesto for social reform via the ...
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Planning and Urban Change

Stephen Victor Ward - Science - 2004 - 324 pages
Fully revised and thoroughly updated, the Second Edition of Planning and Urban Change provides an accessible yet richly detailed account of British urban planning. Stephen Ward ...
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To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform

Sir Peter Hall, Dennis Hardy, E. Howard, Colin Ward - Architecture - 2006 - 296 pages
To celebrate the centenary of the first garden city at Letchworth, the Town and Country Planning Association has performed a service to planners everywhere by initiating the ...
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Sociable Cities: The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City

Peter Hall, Colin Ward - Architecture - 2014 - 362 pages
Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard’s To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 – an event they ...
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Stevenage: A Sociological Study of a New Town

Harold Orlans - Reference - 2013 - 295 pages
This is Volume XIX in a series of twenty-two on Race, Class and Social Structure. Originally published in 1952. In November 1946, the British Government founded the New Town of ...
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The Chosen City

Nicholas Schoon - Political Science - 2004 - 384 pages
There is endless talk about the need for an urban renaissance; can it happen in the real world? In this broad, challenging and highly engaging book, Nicholas Schoon argues that ...
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