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1915

Cities in Evolution

Patrick Geddes

Planning has to work from a prior survey of a regions geography, history and civic life, not from an abstract diagram imposed on a site, diagnosis before treatment applied to the city.

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Garden Cities of To-MorrowEbenezer Howard, 1898A new kind of town, capped in size and ringed by permanent farmland, can combine the economic pull of the city with the health of the countryside if the increase in land value is captured for the community rather than the landlord.

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