The Story of Utopias · Character
Ebenezer Howard
English urban planner who conceived the Garden City movement.
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Also known as Mr. Ebenezer Howard, Mr. Howard, Howard
First appearance: the story of utopias
Ebenezer Howard shows up with force in Plato's Republic: The Foundation of Civic Unity. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Referenced through the mention of modern town planners like Mr.
Ebenezer Howard first appears in 0003 the story of utopias.
In Plato's Republic: The Foundation of Civic Unity: Referenced through the mention of modern town planners like Mr. Raymond Unwin, who was influenced by Howard's garden city movement.
Later, in VI: Noted as the reconstructor of Buckingham's ideas in 'Tomorrow,' leading to the Garden City movement.
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- Plato's Republic: The Foundation of Civic Unity
- VI
- How some utopians have thought that a good community rested at bottom on the right division and use of land; and what sort of communities these land-animals projected.
- How the half-worlds go, and how eutopia may come; and what we need before we can build Jerusalem in any green and pleasant land.
- XI
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