Title:
From garden cities to new towns
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
London : Chapman and Hall, 1991
ISBN:
9780419155706
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Summary
Summary
This book offers a detailed record of one of the world's oldest environmental pressure groups. It raises questions about the capacity of pressure groups to influence policy; and finally it assesses the campaing as a major factor in the emergence of modern town and planning, and as a backdrop against which to examine current issues.
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Acknowledgements |
| Abbreviations |
| Introduction |
| A context of change |
| Organization of the book |
| The origins of a pressure group |
| Formation of the Garden City Association |
| The idea of the garden city |
| 'A peaceful path to real reform' |
| Choosing the ground, 1899-1914 |
| Garden cities and town planning |
| Organizing for pressure |
| The long campaign, 1914-1939 |
| Campaigning and the great war |
| A glimpse of utopia |
| Coming of age |
| Town and country |
| North and south |
| The campaign reviewed |
| Corridors of power, 1939-1946 |
| Vision of Jerusalem |
| Propaganda and politics |
| Britain in 1945 |
| Evaluation |
| Looking back |
| Making policy |
| Shaping planning history |
| Appendix: Main events from the formation of the Garden City Association to the New Town Act |
| Bibliography |
| Index |
