The Radical and Socialist Tradition in British Planning: From Puritan colonies to garden cities

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Radicals and planning in Britain and the colonies
	From the Puritans to the Restoration
	The egalitarian objectives of the early colonisers
	British Puritans and colonial settlement: John Winthrop and the ‘city on a hill’
	Theocratic planning: New Haven
	The Restoration establishment: the re-planning of London and the Shaftesburymodel for the planning of colonial settlements
	William Penn, Thomas Holme and the planning of Philadelphia
	Sources
3 Enlightenment planning
	James Oglethorpe and Savannah
	The debate over London’s growth
	Planning and anti-slavery: Granville Sharp and colonial planning
	Sources
4 The Benthamites and utilitarian planning
	The influence of Jeremy Bentham
	John Arthur Roebuck – amenity and planning
	Thomas Maslen
	The utilitarians and the South Australian experiment
	John Silk Buckingham and ‘Victoria’
	Sources
5 Owenite co-operation and plans for new communities
	18th century Utopian experiments
	Robert Owen’s New View of Society
	William Thompson
	John Thimbleby
	John Minter Morgan
	Robert Pemberton’s Happy Colony
	The contribution of Owenite communitarianism
	Sources
6 The influence of the French utopian socialists in England
	The Saint-Simonian missions to England
	Etienne Cabet and the Icarians
	The Fourierists
	The influence of the French utopians
	Sources
7 Working class radicals and the land
	The historiography and the radical heritage
	Chartists and the land
	The discovery of the housing problem
	The O’Brienites, the First International and land reform
	The development of a distinctive working class agenda
	Sources
8 Social reform and social science
	Intellectuals and the labour movement
	Utilitarianism and sanitarianism
	The Christian socialist intervention
	Positivism and social reform
	The Social Science Association
	The Industrial Remuneration Conference
	Radical and socialist intellectuals and the built environment
	Sources
9 The socialist revival, land and housing reform
	The revival of land reform agitation
	The rediscovery of the East End
	Socialists, Fabians, the radical clubs and land nationalisation
	The London progressives and the London County Council
	Socialists and home colonisation
	Fred Knee, Robert Williams and the Workman’s National Housing Council
	Fabian tracts and the Independent Labour Party
	The Lib–Lab MPs
	The continuity of the radical tradition
	Sources
10 Visions and politics of the garden city pioneers
	Ideology and context
	Radical and socialist influences on Ebenezer Howard
	The Fabian Response to Tomorrow
	Patrick Geddes and positivism
	The ethical socialism of Raymond Unwin
	Ruskin, Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement
	The environmentalism of Alfred Russell Wallace
	Other proponents of garden cities: A R Sennett and Budget Meakin
	The New Liberals and the Heart of Empire debate
	The politics of the garden city pioneers
	Sources
11 The institutionalisation of planning and housing
	From theory to practice
	Labour and housing reform
	The genesis of the 1909 Housing and Town Planning Bill
	The Land Nationalisation Society and the English Land Restoration League in the early 1900s
	The Workman’s National Housing Council and the Housing and Town Planning Bill
	The Labour Party, betterment and land nationalisation
	The Labour Party, land tax and the budget crisis of 1909–10
	The Liberal Land Enquiry reports and the Labour response
	The professionalisation of housing and planning
	Sources
12 Radical and socialist influences on land, planning and housing reform
	The contrast between philanthropic reformers, working class radicals and socialists
	Utopianism and pragmatism
	The role of the state
	Local initiatives and centrally driven reforms
	The interdependence of land, housing and planning reform movements
	The lessons of history
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