Garden Cities (Shire Library) - Softcover

Rutherford, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747813426 ISBN 13: 9780747813422

Publisher: Shire, 2014

Synopsis

Garden Cities: the phrase is redolent of Arts and Crafts values and nineteenth-century utopianism. But despite being the culmination of a range of influential movements, and having global influence themselves, in fact there were only ever two true, self-contained Garden Cities in England – far more numerous were Garden Suburbs and Villages. Crystallised in England by planning visionary Ebenezer Howard and executed largely by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin, the movement arose from nineteenth-century settlements like Port Sunlight (and, earlier, Saltaire and Akroyden), and also from the City Beautiful movement in the US; the settlements were designed to promote healthy individual and community life, as well as commerce and industry, and were – and are – instantly recognizable. This book is a beautifully illustrated guide to the movement as a whole, from its earliest influences through practical difficulties in implementation to the continuing vitality of the conurbations which are its legacy.

About this title

About the Author

Sarah Rutherford has an MA in the conservation of historic parks and gardens and a PhD. She was Head of the English Heritage Historic Parks and Gardens Register and is now a freelance consultant, creating conservation plans.

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Places to Visit (year of foundation in brackets)

Bedford Park, West London  (1875)
www.bedfordpark.org/
Bournville, Birmingham (1895)
www.bvt.org.uk/about-us/the-bournville-story
Brentham Garden Suburb, Ealing, London (1901)
www.brentham.com
Burnage Garden Village, Manchester (1906)
http://burnageheritage.org
Hull Garden Village, East Yorkshire (1907)
www.gardenvillagehull.co.uk
Hampstead Garden Suburb, London (1907)
www.hgs.org.uk/history
www.hgstrust.org/history
Humberstone Garden Village, Leicester (1906)
http://www.anchortenants.org/origins/index.html
Jordans Village, Buckinghamshire (1919)
www.seergreenandjordans.org.uk
Letchworth Garden City (1903) and Garden Cities Generally
www.gardencitymuseum.org
Moorpool, Harborne, Birmingham (1908)
www.moorpool.com/moorpool.ra/
New Earswick, York (1902)
www.jrht.org.uk/node/26
Port Sunlight, Merseyside (1888)
www.portsunlightvillage.com
Rhiwbina Garden Village (1912)
www.rhiwbina.co.uk
Rosyth, Dunfermline, Fife (1915)
www.s1rosyth.com/memories/a-brief-history-of-rosyth.html
Saltaire, Bradford (1851)
www.saltaire.yorks.com
Silver End, Essex (1926)
www.silverend.org
Sutton Garden Suburb, Sutton, Surrey (1912)
www.suttongardensuburb.org/
Wavertree Garden Suburb, Liverpool (1910)
www.walkingbook.co.uk/liverpool/pages/page10.htm
http://wavsoc.awardspace.info/wgs/index.html
Welwyn Garden City (1920)
http://welwyngarden-heritage.org
Westerton Garden Suburb, Bearsden, Glasgow (1913)
http://westertonvillage.org.uk/
Whiteley Village Museum, Cobham, Surrey (1911)
By appointment, contact Whiteley Village Historical Society via the web site:
http://www.whiteleyvillage.org.uk/history_section.php
 
Abroad
Colonel Light Gardens, Mitcham, Adelaide, South Australia (1915)
www.clghs.org.au/
Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (1920s)
 
 
Haberfield, Sydney, Australia (1901)
www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/haberfield
Hellerau, Dresden, Germany (1906??
www.hellerau.org/english/hellerau/history/the-garden-city
Pinelands, Cape Town, South Africa (1919)
http://gadgeteer.co.za/historyofpinelands
Mount Royal Garden Suburb, Calgary, Canada (1914)
Riverside, Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://riverside-illinois.com/History.htm
Weissenhof, Stutttgart (1927)
http://www.weissenhof2002.de/english/weissenhof.html

Edition details

• Publisher: Shire
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747813426
• ISBN 13: 9780747813422
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64