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Regaining Paradise : Englishness and the Early Garden City Movement
Regaining Paradise Englishness and the Early Garden City Movement Author:Standish Meacham This engaging book considers early twentieth-century British social reform activities through the lens of the garden city movement and its plans to build healthy, aesthetically pleasing communities away from overcrowded and polluted cities. The author argues that the movement`s initial radical reforming schemes became instead a way to maintain t... more »he established order in the face of threatening social change.« less