Ebonezer Howard

Ebonezer Howard (1850-1928) also drew plans for a decentralised city. Like Wright and his views on New York City, Howard was disturbed by the disruption and waste he saw in London and other industrial cities. He envisaged the urban and rural worlds to be brought together; a sort of variant of the English village but with other amenities such as the railway and small scale industry. The unit in this Garden City was the family in its residential home. His vision was that of garden towns surrounding a central town linked by railways and supported by rural and small scale industries.