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The Town-Country Magnet

Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898)

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… Religious and political questions too often divide us into hostile camps; and so, in the very realms where calm, dispassionate thought and pure emotions are the essentials of all advance towards right beliefs and sound principles of action, the din of battle and the struggles of contending hosts are more forcibly suggested to the onlooker than the really sincere love of truth and love of country which, one may yet be sure, animate nearly all breasts.

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  • Abercrombie, Patrick. Greater London Plan, 1944. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1945.

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  • Purdom, Charles Benjamin. The Garden City: A Study in the Development of a Modern Town. London: JM Dent & Sons, 1913.

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© 2014 Forster O. Ndubisi

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Howard, E. (2014). The Town-Country Magnet. In: Ndubisi, F.O. (eds) The Ecological Design and Planning Reader. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-491-8_6

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