Abstract
Thomas Mawson was a successful planner of small settlements and towns with their parks and boulevards, despite his lack of formal education. There was no training at the time for landscape architects or town planners, and he had no architectural background, either. Self-taught after leaving school at twelve, but with ambition, energy and drive, his family of brothers and then his sons formed a well-knit commercial entity which took up some 40 planning commissions in Britain and abroad, 20 or more parks in Britain, as well as their better-known 200 gardens in Britain and a handful abroad. The majority of Mawson's urban work lay overseas, and therefore this article concentrates on his drive to establish the City Beautiful concept in Canada and Greece in the face of financial downturns and the First World War.
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