Standish Meacham. Regaining Paradise: Englishness and the Early Garden City Movement. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 1999. Pp. viii, 210. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-07572-3.

Abstract

A consideration of the British social reform movement at the beginning of the 20th century, through the lens of the Garden City Movement. This was a plan to build new communities on open land to provide a healthy, aesthetically pleasing environment free from overcrowding and pollution.