William Morris and the Garden City

The phenomenon of the Garden City represented a union of three contradictory aspects: Howard's inspirational vision, the business reality and what came to be known as the 'spirit of the place'. Although the green paradigm, most faithfully embodied in the modern eco-village, was not de...

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Published inEcology and the Literature of the British Left pp. 125 - 136
Main Author Vaninskaya, Anna
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 2012
Edition1
Subjects
Great Global Warming Swindle
Graeco Roman Pastoral
Vincent Van Gogh
Fine Day
Young Man
Gogh
Garden City
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Wild Geranium
Welwyn Garden City
Thunder Storm
Ad Astra
Animal Kingdom
Final Lesson
Wigan Pier
Poisonous Substances
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Summary:The phenomenon of the Garden City represented a union of three contradictory aspects: Howard's inspirational vision, the business reality and what came to be known as the 'spirit of the place'. Although the green paradigm, most faithfully embodied in the modern eco-village, was not developed with the Garden City in mind, the rhetorical similarities are worth dwelling upon nonetheless. Virtually no treatment of the Garden City movement, and, by extension, of early-twentieth-century British town planning, omits to mention the influence of William Morris. One of the most familiar linkages of the Garden City lifestyle with a Morrisian brand of socialism was forged by George Orwell several decades after Letchworth's foundation, in his anti-crank tirades in The Road to Wigan Pier and Coming Up for Air. Lifestyle choice versus political movement: that, in a nutshell, is the difference between the ideology of the Letchworth citizen and Morris's more orthodox socialism.
ISBN:1409418227
9781409418221
1138249300
9781138249301
DOI:10.4324/9781315578675-10