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Francisco named Henry George was trying to unravel what he called the “Great Enigma.” Why is it, George asked, that there is so much poverty amidst so much wealth – poverty that persists despite social, economic, and technological ...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have...
now, to draw the people into the cities, those causes may all be summed up as " attractions " ; and it is obvious, therefore, that no remedy can possibly be effective which will not present to the people, or at least to considerable ...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1902.
The book gave rise to the garden city movement.This book offered a vision of towns free of slums and enjoying the benefits of both town (such as opportunity, amusement and high wages) and country (such as beauty, fresh air and low rents).
Sir Ebenezer Howard and the Town Planning Movement
The Town magnet, it will be seen, offers, as compared with the Country magnet, the advantages of high wages, opportunities for employment, tempting prospects of advancement, but these are largely counterbalanced by high rents and prices.
This collection is a study of the process by which European planning concepts and practices were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colonial territories and situations.
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In this revised edition of Sociable Cities, sadly now without Colin Ward, Peter Hall writes: ‘the sixteen years separating the two editions of this book seem almost like geological time.