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Visionaries and Planners: The Garden City Movement and the Modern Community Illustrated Edition
Author(s): Stanley Buder (Author)
- Publisher: OUP USA
- Publication Date: 3 Jan. 1991
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780195061741
- ISBN-13: 0195061748
Book Description
In this book, Stanley Buder examines the Garden City movement from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century England to its subsequent development and elaboration in twentieth- century America. The Garden City movement emphasized green belts around cities but was not identified exclusively with suburban development. Much of the city planning which formed the basis for the Garden City movement was based upon designing the ideal community. But this sense of idealism was soon lost with the transfer of the movement to America, and indeed it was unable to sustain itself in the communities of its origin in England.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Carefully researched, cogently argued, and gracefully written…Buder argues compellingly for a humanistic reorientation in planning. This book chalenges planners to understand their past as an essential step in redefining and revitalizing their profession.”–American Planning Association Journal
“Buder’s most significant contribution…is his analysis of how, in the building of Letchworth, other well-intentioned men subverted Howard’s utopian ideal.”–Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
“Visionaries and Planners ably presents Howard’s sources of inspiration and the intellectual influences of the late nineteenth century contributing to the garden city idea.”–Reviews in American History
“This is one of the landmark books in urban studies to appear in recent years and will surely take its place among the best books of 20th-century planning history. As such, it deserves a place in academic libraries at every level, and a readership ranging from undergraduates to veteran scholars.”–CHOICE
Review
‘Visionaries and Planners makes a legitimate contribution to the field. The ideal/real contradiction is well developed and this is probably the fullest treatment to date of Howard’s thought and the influences that shaped it.‘
Patricia Burgess Stach, University of Texas at Arlington, Planning Perspectives, June ’92
Patricia Burgess Stach, University of Texas at Arlington, Planning Perspectives, June ’92
