Regaining Paradise: Englishness and the Early Garden City Movement

by Standish Meacham

Book Overview

This engaging book considers the British social reform movement at the beginning of the twentieth century through the lens of the garden city movement, a plan to build new communities on open land that would provide a healthy, aesthetically pleasing environment free from overcrowding and pollution. Standish Meacham argues that although the garden city movement initially embodied radical schemes for the reformation of society, it became in the hands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300191499
• ISBN13: 9780300191493
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"