Abstract
Abstract This chapter considers the fortunes of the Garden City movement in the immediate post-First World War period. It explains how Howard’s younger disciples, Frederic Osborn and C.B. Purdom ‘refreshed’ the concept of the Garden City in the years after the War, and the circumstances that led to the building of the second Garden City at Welwyn, from 1919. It discusses the design of the town by Louis de Soissons, and the development of religious institutions during the first decade of Welwyn’s development. The chapter examines the final decade of Howard’s life, as he became less involved in the life of the Hertfordshire Garden Cities, and more preoccupied with the International Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, as well as with his lifelong project to build a reliable stenography machine. The chapter concludes by discussing the circumstances of his death, and the debate about who should write his biography.
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