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garden city
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A phrase already applied to certain towns in the USA before being put forward as the urban ideal of the future by Ebenezer Howard (1850–1928) in a book of 1898 (Tomorrow a Peaceful Path to Real Reform, reissued in 1902 as Garden Cities of Tomorrow). His campaign for *new towns of about 30,000 people (with a well-balanced mix of civic and industrial buildings, protected by an outer belt of agricultural land) led directly to the founding of Letchworth in 1903 and Welwyn in 1919, both of them in Hertfordshire.
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