Ebenezer Howard
*29. 1. 1850 – London, United Kingdom
†1. 5. 1928 – Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom
Biography
Sir Ebenezer Howard was an English urban planner and the founder of the garden city movement, known for his publication Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898), describing a utopian city where people live together harmoniously with nature. The publication led to the establishment of the garden city movement. The construction of the first garden city, Letchworth Garden City, began in 1903. 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 in the USA designed by F. L. Olmsted Jr. in 1909, Radburn NJ (1923), and cities in the 1930s included in the Suburban Resettlement Program (Greenbelt in Maryland, Greenhills in Ohio, Greenbrook in New Jersey, and Greendale in Wisconsin). Howard sought to limit the alienation of people and society from nature, and for this reason, he advocated for garden cities and Georgism. He is often regarded as one of the great figures in the urban planning movement, with many of his garden city principles still applied in modern urban planning.
Sir Ebenezer Howard was an English urban planner and the founder of the garden city movement, known for his publication Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898), describing a utopian city where people live together harmoniously with nature. The publication led to the establishment of the garden city movement. The construction of the first garden city, Letchworth Garden City, began in 1903. 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 in the USA designed by F. L. Olmsted Jr. in 1909, Radburn NJ (1923), and cities in the 1930s included in the Suburban Resettlement Program (Greenbelt in Maryland, Greenhills in Ohio, Greenbrook in New Jersey, and Greendale in Wisconsin). Howard sought to limit the alienation of people and society from nature, and for this reason, he advocated for garden cities and Georgism. He is often regarded as one of the great figures in the urban planning movement, with many of his garden city principles still applied in modern urban planning.
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