Peaceful Path
Peaceful Path

Author: Stephen Ward

Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press

Published: 2016-03-14

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1909291714

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The title of this book is taken from Ebenezer Howard's visionary tract To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Published in 1898 as a manifesto for social reform via the creation of Garden Cities, it proposed a new way of providing cheap and healthy homes, workplaces and green spaces in balance in cohesive new communities, underpinned by radical ideas about collective land ownership. While Howard's vision had international impact, in this book planning historian Stephen Ward largely honors the special place that Hertfordshire occupies on the peaceful path, beginning with the development of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden Cities.

Working-class Housing in England Between the Wars
Working-class Housing in England Between the Wars

Author: Andrzej Olechnowicz

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780198206507

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Built between 1921 and 1934, the London County Council's Becontree Estate was the largest public housing scheme ever undertaken in Britain, and, at the time of its planning, in the world. Using interviews with surviving tenants from the inter-year period, Dr Olechnowicz discusses the early years of the estate, looking in detail at the philosophy behind its construction and management, and showing how it eventually came to be denigrated as a social concentration camp.