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Ebenezer Howard, the Glossary

Sir Ebenezer Howard (29 January 1850 – 1 May 1928) was an English urban planner and founder of the garden city movement, known for his publication To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898), the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature.^[1]

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English Esperantists
English urban planners

BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the BBC.

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Brentham Garden Suburb

Brentham Garden Suburb near Pitshanger in Ealing was the first garden suburb in London to be built in co-partnership housing movement principles, predating the larger and better-known Hampstead Garden Suburb by some years.

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Brett Clark (sociologist)

Brett Clark is an American sociologist working as a professor of sociology at the University of Utah.

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Bruno Taut

Bruno Julius Florian Taut (4 May 1880 – 24 December 1938) was a renowned German architect, urban planner and author of Prussian Lithuanian heritage ("taut" means "nation" in Lithuanian).

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Christian Henson

Christian Henson is a British composer, primarily working on television and film soundtracks.

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Clarence Stein

Clarence Samuel Stein (June 19, 1882 – February 7, 1975) was an American urban planner, architect, and writer, a major proponent of the garden city movement in the United States.

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Co-partnership housing movement

Housing co-partnership was a social movement that developed alongside the garden city movement in Britain between 1900 and 1914 and which financed and built most of the suburbs and villages associated with that movement.

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Colin Ward

Colin Ward (14 August 1924 – 11 February 2010).

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Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel Looking Backward.

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EPCOT (concept)

The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, shortened to EPCOT or E.P.C.O.T., was an unfinished concept for a planned community, intended to sit on a swath of undeveloped land near Orlando, Florida.

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Fore Street, London

Fore Street is a street in the City of London, England, near the Barbican Centre.

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Forest Hills, Queens

Forest Hills is a mostly residential neighborhood in the central portion of the borough of Queens in New York City.

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Frederic Osborn

Sir Frederic James Osborn (1885–1978) was a leading member of the UK Garden city movement and was chairman of the Town and Country Planning Association. Ebenezer Howard and Frederic Osborn are urban theorists.

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Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.

Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (July 24, 1870 – December 25, 1957) was an American landscape architect and city planner known for his wildlife conservation efforts.

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Garden Cities of To-morrow

Garden Cities of To-morrow is a book by the British urban planner Ebenezer Howard. When it was published in 1898, the book was titled To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. In 1902, it was reprinted as Garden Cities of To-Morrow. The book gave rise to the garden city movement and is very important in the field of urban design.Anderson, p.

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Garden city movement

The garden city movement was a 20th century urban planning movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with greenbelts.

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Gastritis

Gastritis is the inflammation of the lining of the stomach.

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Geoffrey Howard (cricketer)

Cecil Geoffrey Howard (14 February 1909 – 8 November 2002) was an English cricketer and cricket administrator.

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Georgism

Georgism, also called in modern times Geoism, and known historically as the single tax movement, is an economic ideology holding that people should own the value that they produce themselves, while the economic rent derived from land—including from all natural resources, the commons, and urban locations—should belong equally to all members of society.

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Great Chicago Fire

The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871.

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Green Brook Township, New Jersey

Green Brook Township is a township in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Greenbelt, Maryland

Greenbelt is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, and a suburb of Washington, D.C. At the 2020 census, the population was 24,921.

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Greendale, Wisconsin

Greendale is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Greenhills, Ohio

Greenhills is a village in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

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Hansard

Hansard is the transcripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.

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Hellerau

Hellerau is a northern quarter (Stadtteil) in the city of Dresden, Germany, slightly south of Dresden Airport.

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Henry George

Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist.

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Henry Vivian (trade unionist)

Henry Harvey Vivian (20 April 1868 – 30 May 1930) was an English trade unionist, and Liberal Party politician and campaigner for industrial democracy and co-partnership, especially noted for his work in co-partnership housing. Ebenezer Howard and Henry Vivian (trade unionist) are English urban planners.

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Hermann Muthesius

Adam Gottlieb Hermann Muthesius (20 April 1861 – 29 October 1927), known as Hermann Muthesius, was a German architect, author and diplomat, perhaps best known for promoting many of the ideas of the English Arts and Crafts movement within Germany and for his subsequent influence on early pioneers of German architectural modernism such as the Bauhaus.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (or; often abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties.

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International Federation for Housing and Planning

The International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) is a world-wide network of professionals founded in England representing the broad field of housing and planning.

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Knight Bachelor

The title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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Land value tax

A land value tax (LVT) is a levy on the value of land without regard to buildings, personal property and other improvements upon it.

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Letchworth

Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England.

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Letchworth Cemetery

Letchworth Cemetery (properly the Icknield Way Cemetery) was the first burial ground for Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire.

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Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford (19 October 1895 – 26 January 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Ebenezer Howard and Lewis Mumford are urban theorists.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Borough of Ealing

The London Borough of Ealing is a London borough in London, England.

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Looking Backward

Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by the American journalist and writer Edward Bellamy first published in 1888.

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Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes is a city in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a triply landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Neighbourhood unit

Generally the concept of the neighborhood unit, crystallised from the prevailing social and intellectual attitudes of the early 1900s by Clarence Perry, is an early diagrammatic planning model for residential development in metropolitan areas.

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New towns in the United Kingdom

The new towns in the United Kingdom were planned under the powers of the New Towns Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 68) and later acts to relocate people from poor or bombed-out housing following the Second World War.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.

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Patrick Abercrombie

Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie (6 June 1879 – 23 March 1957) was an English architect, urban designer and town planner, best known as the man who created London.

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Pinelands, Cape Town

Pinelands is an affluent garden city suburb located on the edge of the southern suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa, neighbouring the suburb of Thornton, and is known for its large thatched houses and green spaces.

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Progress and Poverty

Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy is an 1879 book by social theorist and economist Henry George.

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Radburn, New Jersey

Radburn is an unincorporated community located within the borough of Fair Lawn in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

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Raymond Unwin

Sir Raymond Unwin (2 November 1863 – 29 June 1940) was a prominent and influential English engineer, architect and town planner, with an emphasis on improvements in working class housing. Ebenezer Howard and Raymond Unwin are English urban planners.

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Richard Barry Parker

Richard Barry Parker (18 November 1867 – 21 February 1947) was an English architect and urban planner associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement.

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Richard Reiss

Richard Leopold Reiss (20 May 1883 – 30 September 1959), was a British Liberal Party politician who later joined the Labour Party.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

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Stevenage

Stevenage is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, about north of London. Stevenage is east of junctions 7 and 8 of the A1(M), between Letchworth Garden City to the north and Welwyn Garden City to the south. In 1946, Stevenage was designated the United Kingdom's first New Town under the New Towns Act.

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Town and Country Planning Association

The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) is an independent research and campaigning charity founded and based in the United Kingdom.

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Una Stubbs

Una Stubbs (1 May 1937 – 12 August 2021) was a British actress, television personality, and dancer who appeared on British television, in the theatre, and occasionally in films.

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Urban planner

An urban planner (also known as town planner) is a professional who practices in the field of town planning, urban planning or city planning.

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Utopia

A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur.

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Walt Whitman

Walter Whitman Jr. (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.

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Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Howard

Also known as Sir Ebenezer Howard.

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English Esperantists

English urban planners

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