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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Radicals and planning in Britain and the colonies; From the Puritans to the Restoration; The egalitarian objectives of the early colonisers; British Puritans and colonial settlement: John Winthrop and the 'city on a hill'; Theocratic planning: New Haven; The Restoration establishment: the re-planning of London and the Shaftesburymodel for the planning of colonial settlements; William Penn, Thomas Holme and the planning of Philadelphia; Sources; 3 Enlightenment planning |
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James Oglethorpe and SavannahThe debate over London's growth; Planning and anti-slavery: Granville Sharp and colonial planning; Sources; 4 The Benthamites and utilitarian planning; The influence of Jeremy Bentham; John Arthur Roebuck -- amenity and planning; Thomas Maslen; The utilitarians and the South Australian experiment; John Silk Buckingham and 'Victoria'; Sources; 5 Owenite co-operation and plans for new communities; 18th century Utopian experiments; Robert Owen's New View of Society; William Thompson; John Thimbleby; John Minter Morgan; Robert Pemberton's Happy Colony |
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The contribution of Owenite communitarianismSources; 6 The influence of the French utopian socialists in England; The Saint-Simonian missions to England; Etienne Cabet and the Icarians; The Fourierists; The influence of the French utopians; Sources; 7 Working class radicals and the land; The historiography and the radical heritage; Chartists and the land; The discovery of the housing problem; The O'Brienites, the First International and land reform; The development of a distinctive working class agenda; Sources; 8 Social reform and social science; Intellectuals and the labour movement |
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Utilitarianism and sanitarianismThe Christian socialist intervention; Positivism and social reform; The Social Science Association; The Industrial Remuneration Conference; Radical and socialist intellectuals and the built environment; Sources; 9 The socialist revival, land and housing reform; The revival of land reform agitation; The rediscovery of the East End; Socialists, Fabians, the radical clubs and land nationalisation; The London progressives and the London County Council; Socialists and home colonisation; Fred Knee, Robert Williams and the Workman's National Housing Council |
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Fabian tracts and the Independent Labour PartyThe Lib-Lab MPs; The continuity of the radical tradition; Sources; 10 Visions and politics of the garden city pioneers; Ideology and context; Radical and socialist influences on Ebenezer Howard; The Fabian Response to Tomorrow; Patrick Geddes and positivism; The ethical socialism of Raymond Unwin; Ruskin, Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement; The environmentalism of Alfred Russell Wallace; Other proponents of garden cities: A R Sennett and Budget Meakin; The New Liberals and the Heart of Empire debate; The politics of the garden city pioneers |
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City planning -- Great Britain -- History
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Regional planning -- Great Britain -- History
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Land use -- Great Britain -- Planning -- History
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Urban policy -- Great Britain -- History
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Housing policy -- Great Britain -- History
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City planning
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Housing policy
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Land use -- Planning
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Regional planning
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Urban policy
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Great Britain
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317018339 |
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1317018338 |
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