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Dust Jacket: The only blemish in what is otherwise an "As New" DJ is two small dents on the upper points (photo). The ISBN is visible and unblemished. Flaps are unclipped (photo).Book: Flaw: Owner signature and date on the first free endpaper (photo). Otherwise, the book is pristine. No other marks or entries. The boards and spine are firm and strong. Barely visible page edge toning. Victorian cities evoke images of crowded tenements where social unrest and epidemic disease were rampant. Conditions in nineteenth-century London, in particular, sparked efforts to find alternative plans for urban development.The most influential alternative to the Victorian city was Ebenezer Howard's Garden City, an idea he sketched in his modest book To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. First published in 1898, To-Morrow attempted to improve the material condition of working-class families through a vision of new communities which would provide a better quality of life. Howard's legacy grew throughout the…
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From Garden City to Green City: The Legacy of Ebenezer Howard Hardcover - 2002
by Kermit C. Parsons (Editor); David Schuyler (Editor)
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Although Ebenezer Howard's To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898) would prove to have a profound effect on the humanly created landscape, the book's initial success undoubtedly surprised both the publisher and the author.
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- Title From Garden City to Green City: The Legacy of Ebenezer Howard
- Author Kermit C. Parsons (Editor); David Schuyler (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 312
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
- Date November 12, 2002
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780801869440 / 0801869447
- Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 6.8 x 0.9 in (22.35 x 17.27 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001007421
- Dewey Decimal Code 307.121
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