Regaining paradise
Subtitle: Englishness and the early garden city movement
By: Standish Meacham.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Garden cities -- England -- History.; Planned communities -- England -- History.; National characteristics, English.
Description: "This book considers the British social reform movement at the beginning of the twentieth century through the lens of the garden city movement, a plan to build new communities on open land that would provide a healthy, aesthetically pleasing environment free from overcrowding and pollution.

Standish Meacham argues that although the garden city movement initially embodied radical schemes for the reformation of society, it became in the hands of its upper-middle-class proponents a device for maintaining the established order in the face of threatening social change. In the complex clash between conservative and progressive impulses among garden city proponents, conservatism ultimately prevailed."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-203) and index.