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To-Morrow

A Peaceful Path to Real Reform

By Sir Peter Hall, Dennis Hardy, E. Howard, Colin Ward

Foreword by David Lock

Published July 17th 2003 by Routledge – 248 pages

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Description

To celebrate the centenary of the first garden city at Letchworth, the Town and Country Planning Association has performed a service to planners everywhere by initiating the republication in facsimile form of the very scarce original first edition of To-Morrow. Accompanied by a running scholarly commentary on the text, and by a newly-written editorial introduction and postscript, jointly written by three leading commentators on Howard's life and work To-Morrow will immediately become a compulsory purchase for every serious student and practitioner of planning and for teachers and students of modern social, economic and political history.

Reviews

'This double spread of foresight and hindsight is a genuinely wonderful thing.' - Michael Hebbert, University of Manchester

'To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform is almost without question the most important single work in the history of modern town planning'. - Sir Peter Hall, Director of the Institute of Community Studies and Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London.

'This edition is far more than an exercise in planning history: all those practically involved in new town planning, whether in Britain or across the world, will find enormous profit in reading this new edition of To-Morrow. The answers they seek will be found in these pages.'

- David Lock, Chairman of the Town and Country Planning Association

'This book is destined to become a standard purchase for every serious practitioner of planning, and for those fascinated by modern social, economic and political history.' - Fencing and Landscape News

Contents

Introduction. 1. The Town-Country Magnet. 2. The Revenue of Garden City, and how it is obtained - The Agricultural Estate. 3. The Revenue of Garden City - Town Estate. 4. The Revenue of Garden City - General Observations on its Expenditure. 5. Further Details of Expenditure on Garden City. 6. Administration. 7. Semi-Municipal Enterprises - Local Option - Temperance Reform. 8. Pro-Municipal Work. 9. Administration - A Bird's Eye View. 10. Some Difficulties Considered. 11. A Unique Combination of Proposals. 12. The Path Followed Up. 13. Social Cities. 14. The Future of London. Appendix: Water-Supply. Index.

Name: To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: By Sir Peter Hall, Dennis Hardy, E. Howard, Colin WardForeword by David Lock. To celebrate the centenary of the first garden city at Letchworth, the Town and Country Planning Association has performed a service to planners everywhere by initiating the republication in facsimile form of the very scarce original first edition of...
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