In the year 1898, Mr. Ebenezer Howard published a little book entitled "To-morrow," in which...he suggested that it would be comparatively easy to try the experiment of developing a town on the precisely opposite and obviously rational method of first making a plan, and, by the exercise of foresight, providing in that plan for all public needs likely to arise, and then securing the development of the town along the lines of this plan. [Emphasis mine].
- Raymond Unwin, "Of Civic Art as the Expression of Civic Life," from his book, Town Planning In Practice, published first in 1909.
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Man, do I love them 1890's. No, seriously, I really like the 1890's a lot. Like the 1892 Worlds' Fair in Chicago.
And for fun 1890's style planning, (ok, fine, 1880's (but the joke still lives!)) check out Pullman, Illinois. Company towns = first ground-up town planning attempts?
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