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Garden Cities of To-Morrow

Ebenezer Howard

A 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.

Before you start

FreeEntryabout 3 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026

What overturned it

Still worth reading — this is where the argument went next.

The Death and Life of Great American CitiesJane Jacobs, 1961Mixed uses, short blocks, aged buildings and dense foot traffic are what make a city street safe and alive, so the slum-clearance and superblock planning of postwar renewal was destroying the very disorder that made cities work.

Groundwork for

Works in the library that name this one as a prerequisite.

Cities in EvolutionPatrick Geddes, 1915Planning 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.

Filed under Urban Design & Planning in Architecture & Built Environment.