Travis Elborough

The folly of garden cities

We need high density, not utopian dreams: how Britain’s housing policy has been held back by Ebenezer Howard

Letchworth in Hertfordshire, brainchild of garden cities guru Ebenezer Howard [Alamy] 
issue 23 July 2022

  • House in the Country: Where Our Suburbs and Garden Cities Came From and Why It’s Time to Leave Them Behind

    Simon Matthews

    Oldcastle Books, pp. 256, £19

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