A new statue of garden city movement founder Ebenezer Howard has finally been unveiled in one of the towns he planned, to mark its centenary. The 2.2m (7.2ft) bronze statue has been installed in ...

I visited Welwyn Garden City visionary and British urban planner Ebenezer Howard's final home a few years ago and found it not at all ordinary. In fact, I have been thinking about it ever since ...

Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City was meant to solve those problems. Instead of cities expanding like ooze over the Earth, he imagined planned cities that grew in organized buds. They would be large ...

Howard was the founder of the “Garden City” movement. Born in 1850 London, Howard was put straight into the thick of the negative effects of rapid industrialisation. He saw pollution ...

The concept propagated by Ebenezer Howard was quite simple. At its most basic, a garden city would harmoniously combine the countryside with the urban town, where rural flight and urban ...

An area guide for Letchworth in Hertfordshire, the first garden city, with information about property, travel, schools and more.

However, Ebenezer Howard's vision of Garden Cities ... today's money was raised to build Letchworth, the world's first Garden City. Soon there were other Garden City-style developments in Britain ...

A new statue of garden city movement founder Ebenezer Howard has finally been unveiled in one of the towns he planned, to mark its centenary. The 2.2m (7.2ft) bronze statue has been installed in ...