To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform

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"To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform" is an 1898 book by Ebenezer Howard that set out the social and urban-planning vision that inspired the garden city movement.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
addressesProblem poor housing conditions
speculative land ownership
urban overcrowding
advocates cooperative land ownership
decentralization of cities
author Ebenezer Howard
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
focusesOn improvement of working-class living conditions
integration of town and country
genre non-fiction
social reform literature
urban planning literature
hasInfluenced 20th-century urban planning
Letchworth Garden City
Welwyn Garden City
hasLegacy foundational text of garden city movement
historicalPeriod late 19th century
inspired garden city movement
intendedAudience policy makers
social reformers
urban planners
keyConcept land value capture for community benefit
marriage of town and country
self-contained satellite towns
language English
laterRepublishedAs Garden Cities of To-morrow
mainSubject garden city movement
social reform
urban planning
mediaType print
philosophicalOrientation reformist
utopian urbanism
proposes garden city model
planned communities
proposesGreenbelt agricultural land surrounding the town
proposesPopulationLimit about 32,000 inhabitants per garden city
proposesSolution planned garden cities owned by the community
publicationYear 1898
setsOut social and urban-planning vision for reform
structureIncludes diagrams of garden city layout
timePeriodDescribed industrial-era cities

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Garden city movement
basedOnWork
Ebenezer Howard
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