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Ebenezer Howard Inventor of the Garden City

Knight Frances
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198790815
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
203 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Knight Frances

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Frances Knight is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Nottingham. She is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society in 2021-22. She taught at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and then the University of Nottingham for many years. She publishes mainly in the areas of the history of the Church of England from the late-eighteenth century to the present and the interactions between religion and culture in Britain in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

Ebenezer Howard Inventor of the Garden City

Knight Frances
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This book is brilliant at evoking the culture of serious theological debate and earnest spiritual searching of which Howard was a part.

Church Times

Howard lived a full and interesting life that encompassed spells in the USA,...and he wrote a book which experts still consider the most influential and important in 20th century city planning. With this excellent new study we now better understand the spiritual core of that life.

Andrew Bradstock, Reform

This book is brilliant at evoking the culture of serious theological debate and earnest spiritual searching of which Howard was a part.

William Whyte, Church Times

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This book is a must-read volume for anyone interested in the history of planned interventions in the built and natural environments as environmental crises and urban tensions involving religion accelerate globally.

Babak Manouchehrifar, JSRNC Vol. 18

Knight (Univ. of Nottingham, UK) provides an excellent, lively, and readable short biography of Howard that is particularly strong on his spiritual interests. Recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals.

Choice

Knight has given us an excellent account of Howard's life and times, drawing on her extensive knowledge of the diverse religious culture of late Victorian and Edwardian England ... Her biography is also based on extensive primary research among Howard's correspondence, articles and lecture texts. She writes beautifully, with sensitivity, empathy and understanding of Howard, and of those who worked and dreamed with him.

Stewart J. Brown, The Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society

[T]his excellent new biography should be read by anyone with serious interest in the garden city tradition.... Frances Knight's biography restores an authentic sense of how it actually began, as a holistic prospectus, richly invested with Howard's own religious faith, for a better society.

Stephen V. Ward, Planning Perspectives

Frances Knight has done a superb job ofresearching and telling the storyof how Shaw's 'heroic simpleton'founded two garden cities, inspiredthe town-planning movement andearned a knighthood.

Rob Cowan, Context (Journal of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation)

Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) is famous worldwide for founding the Garden City movement, and he continues to be frequently cited by planners and theorists. When he was dying, he urged his prospective biographer to remember that 'the spiritual dimension' had always been central to his life and work. He wanted this to be prominently brought out in any biography. Almost a century after his death, Ebenezer Howard: Inventor of the Garden City is the first book that does justice to that wish. Frances Knight has written a very readable biography, the first since the 1980s, with a properly contextualized analysis of Howard's religious views. Shaped in the world of London Congregationalism, he became a keen seeker after unity and peace. He grafted new religious ideas, particularly from spiritualism, and later from Theosophy, into his biblically-informed, Protestant faith. Prone to spiritual epiphanies, he believed that he had been raised up to preach the 'gospel of the garden city' and to tackle the housing crisis by beginning to build the New Jerusalem in the Hertfordshire countryside. Although he sometimes appeared naïve, he was astute, and highly skilled at combining different, and sometimes conflicting, ideas in a way that built consensus and gained support from people across the social and political spectrum. As well as explaining the remarkable sequence of events that led from the publication of his ideas to the foundation of Letchworth as the world's first garden city, just five years later, this book investigates other neglected aspects of Howard's life including: the years he spent in America, his career as a shorthand writer, and his relationship with his first wife Lizzie - herself an important garden city pioneer. Howard wanted his garden cities to be places of spiritual exploration, and as this book shows, early Letchworth certainly lived up to those expectations.
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Ebenezer Howard founded the Garden City movement, and he continues to be cited by planners and theorists. Ebenezer Howard: Inventor of the Garden City is a properly contextualized analysis of Howard's religious views. It investigates neglected aspects of his life, and provides a significant new interpretation of the Garden City movement.
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Introduction: Ebenezer Howard - the Man and the Message 1: The Early Years of Exploration 1850-1876 2: Laying the Foundations 1876-1889 3: The Days before To-morrow 1890-1898 4: The Path to First Garden City 1899-1904 5: Howard in Letchworth 1905-1914 6: The Spiritual Life of First Garden City 1904-1918 7: Howard and Welwyn - the Second Garden City 1919-1928 Conclusion-Ebenezer Howard - A Spiritual Life
Les mer
Frances Knight is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Nottingham. She is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society in 2021-22. She taught at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and then the University of Nottingham for many years. She publishes mainly in the areas of the history of the Church of England from the late-eighteenth century to the present and the interactions between religion and culture in Britain in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Les mer
The first book to investigate the religious context of Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City movement The first use of hitherto unavailable newspaper sources, and the integration of references to images in the online Garden City Collection An up-to-date biography of Howard
Les mer

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This book is brilliant at evoking the culture of serious theological debate and earnest spiritual searching of which Howard was a part.

Church Times

Howard lived a full and interesting life that encompassed spells in the USA,...and he wrote a book which experts still consider the most influential and important in 20th century city planning. With this excellent new study we now better understand the spiritual core of that life.

Andrew Bradstock, Reform

This book is brilliant at evoking the culture of serious theological debate and earnest spiritual searching of which Howard was a part.

William Whyte, Church Times

Se alle

This book is a must-read volume for anyone interested in the history of planned interventions in the built and natural environments as environmental crises and urban tensions involving religion accelerate globally.

Babak Manouchehrifar, JSRNC Vol. 18

Knight (Univ. of Nottingham, UK) provides an excellent, lively, and readable short biography of Howard that is particularly strong on his spiritual interests. Recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals.

Choice

Knight has given us an excellent account of Howard's life and times, drawing on her extensive knowledge of the diverse religious culture of late Victorian and Edwardian England ... Her biography is also based on extensive primary research among Howard's correspondence, articles and lecture texts. She writes beautifully, with sensitivity, empathy and understanding of Howard, and of those who worked and dreamed with him.

Stewart J. Brown, The Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society

[T]his excellent new biography should be read by anyone with serious interest in the garden city tradition.... Frances Knight's biography restores an authentic sense of how it actually began, as a holistic prospectus, richly invested with Howard's own religious faith, for a better society.

Stephen V. Ward, Planning Perspectives

Frances Knight has done a superb job ofresearching and telling the storyof how Shaw's 'heroic simpleton'founded two garden cities, inspiredthe town-planning movement andearned a knighthood.

Rob Cowan, Context (Journal of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation)

Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) is famous worldwide for founding the Garden City movement, and he continues to be frequently cited by planners and theorists. When he was dying, he urged his prospective biographer to remember that 'the spiritual dimension' had always been central to his life and work. He wanted this to be prominently brought out in any biography. Almost a century after his death, Ebenezer Howard: Inventor of the Garden City is the first book that does justice to that wish. Frances Knight has written a very readable biography, the first since the 1980s, with a properly contextualized analysis of Howard's religious views. Shaped in the world of London Congregationalism, he became a keen seeker after unity and peace. He grafted new religious ideas, particularly from spiritualism, and later from Theosophy, into his biblically-informed, Protestant faith. Prone to spiritual epiphanies, he believed that he had been raised up to preach the 'gospel of the garden city' and to tackle the housing crisis by beginning to build the New Jerusalem in the Hertfordshire countryside. Although he sometimes appeared naïve, he was astute, and highly skilled at combining different, and sometimes conflicting, ideas in a way that built consensus and gained support from people across the social and political spectrum. As well as explaining the remarkable sequence of events that led from the publication of his ideas to the foundation of Letchworth as the world's first garden city, just five years later, this book investigates other neglected aspects of Howard's life including: the years he spent in America, his career as a shorthand writer, and his relationship with his first wife Lizzie - herself an important garden city pioneer. Howard wanted his garden cities to be places of spiritual exploration, and as this book shows, early Letchworth certainly lived up to those expectations.
Les mer
Ebenezer Howard founded the Garden City movement, and he continues to be cited by planners and theorists. Ebenezer Howard: Inventor of the Garden City is a properly contextualized analysis of Howard's religious views. It investigates neglected aspects of his life, and provides a significant new interpretation of the Garden City movement.
Les mer
Introduction: Ebenezer Howard - the Man and the Message 1: The Early Years of Exploration 1850-1876 2: Laying the Foundations 1876-1889 3: The Days before To-morrow 1890-1898 4: The Path to First Garden City 1899-1904 5: Howard in Letchworth 1905-1914 6: The Spiritual Life of First Garden City 1904-1918 7: Howard and Welwyn - the Second Garden City 1919-1928 Conclusion-Ebenezer Howard - A Spiritual Life
Les mer
Frances Knight is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Nottingham. She is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society in 2021-22. She taught at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and then the University of Nottingham for many years. She publishes mainly in the areas of the history of the Church of England from the late-eighteenth century to the present and the interactions between religion and culture in Britain in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Les mer
The first book to investigate the religious context of Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City movement The first use of hitherto unavailable newspaper sources, and the integration of references to images in the online Garden City Collection An up-to-date biography of Howard
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198790815
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
203 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Knight Frances

Biografisk notat

Frances Knight is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Nottingham. She is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society in 2021-22. She taught at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and then the University of Nottingham for many years. She publishes mainly in the areas of the history of the Church of England from the late-eighteenth century to the present and the interactions between religion and culture in Britain in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

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