Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Introduction
- Chap. I The Town-Country Magnet
- Chap. II The Revenue of Garden City, and how it is obtained—The Agricultural Estate
- Chap. III The Revenue of Garden City—Town Estate
- Chap. IV The Revenue of Garden City—General Observations on its Expenditure
- Chap. V Further Details of Expenditure on Garden City
- Chap. VI Administration
- Chap. VII Semi-Municipal Enterprise—Local Option—Temperance Reform
- Chap. VIII Pro-Municipal Work
- Chap. IX Administration—A Bird's Eye View
- Chap. X Some Difficulties Considered
- Chap. XI A Unique Combination of Proposals
- Chap. XII The Path followed up
- Chap. XIII Social Cities
- Chap. XIV The Future of London
- APPENDIX: Water-Supply
- INDEX
- Plate section
Chap. XIII - Social Cities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Introduction
- Chap. I The Town-Country Magnet
- Chap. II The Revenue of Garden City, and how it is obtained—The Agricultural Estate
- Chap. III The Revenue of Garden City—Town Estate
- Chap. IV The Revenue of Garden City—General Observations on its Expenditure
- Chap. V Further Details of Expenditure on Garden City
- Chap. VI Administration
- Chap. VII Semi-Municipal Enterprise—Local Option—Temperance Reform
- Chap. VIII Pro-Municipal Work
- Chap. IX Administration—A Bird's Eye View
- Chap. X Some Difficulties Considered
- Chap. XI A Unique Combination of Proposals
- Chap. XII The Path followed up
- Chap. XIII Social Cities
- Chap. XIV The Future of London
- APPENDIX: Water-Supply
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and re-planted for too long a series of generations in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birth-places, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.”
“The Scarlet Letter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne.“The question which now interests people is, What are we going to do with democracy now that we have got it? What kind of society are we going to make by its aid? Are we to see nothing but an endless vista of Londons and Manchesters, New Yorks and Chicagos, with their noise and ugliness, their money-getting, their “corners” and “rings,” their strikes, their contrasts of luxury and squalor? Or shall we be able to build up a society with art and culture for all, and with some great spiritual aim dominating men's lives.”
—Daily Chronicle, 4th March, 1891.The problem with which we have now to deal, shortly stated, is this: How to make our Garden City experiment the stepping-stone to a higher and better form of industrial life generally throughout the country. Granted the success of the initial experiment, and there must inevitably arise a widespread demand for an extension of methods so healthy and so advantageous; and it will be well, therefore, to consider some of the chief problems which will have to be faced in the progress of such extension.
It will, I think, be well in approaching this question to consider the analogy presented by the early progress of railway enterprise.
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- To-morrowA Peaceful Path to Real Reform, pp. 128 - 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1898