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Names and Places
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Links
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Robert Owen (1771-1858)
Industrialist, Social reformer & Socialist
New Lanark , Scotland (1817) |
http://www.atheists.org/Atheism/roots/robertowen/declaration.html
http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/owen_41.htm
http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/owen_17.htm
http://members.tripod.com/hwmsocialism/owen.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRowen.htm |
| Col Edward Ackroyd created
early model villages to house his employees at Copley 1849-1853 and Ackroyden
1859 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Edward_Ackroyd |
| Sir Titus Salt
(1803-1876) Businessman, public servant & philanthropist
created Saltaire 1853-1863 in West Yorkshire, a mid-Victorian industrial
village built by Sir Titus Salt at the site of his Alpaca Wool spinning
and weaving mill. |
http://www.bradford.gov.uk/tourism/trails/saltaire/saltaire.html
Click start on the map for a tour and history
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRsalt.htm
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| W H Lever (1851-1925)
with a social conscience coupled with an enthusiasm for architecture,art
and town planning - created his own vision in Port Sunlight 1890 |
http://www.portsunlight.org.uk/
http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/liverpool.htm |
| George Cadbury (1839-1922)
A Quaker, created a model village for his employees at Bourneville
Village |
http://www.cadbury.co.uk/
follow : chocolate encylopaedia/story
of cadbury/
bourneville village
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REcadbury.htm |
Bedford Park, London
1875
often referred to as the first garden suburb.
A development intended for the middle classes. |
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Bedford_Park.html |
Joseph Rowntree (1836-1925)
was a Quaker and a successful businessman.
New Earswick 1902. Begun by Raymond
Unwin and Barry Parker features many of the ideas that they were to develop
in the later work at Letchworth and Hampstead Garden Suburb. |
http://www.jrf.org.uk/
go to background information
Joseph Rowntree
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RErowntreeJ.htm
and his son Seebohm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RErowntreeS.htm
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Letchworth Garden City
(This Site)
See the Tour for examples of Architecture
and information
Ebenezer Howard
Thomas Adams 1
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Raymond Unwin 1863-1940
Barry Parker 1867-1947
C M Crickmer 1879-1971
Cecil Hignett 1879-1960
Robet Bennett 1878-1956
Wilson Bidwell 1877-1954
Geoffry Lucas 1872-1947
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A Letchworth Bibliography
with illustrations
http://www.angelfire.com/nb/letchworth/
Letchworth - The First Garden
City
http://mondodesigno.com/ben.html
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Hampstead Garden Suburb
Henrietta Barnet 1851-1936 |
http://www.hgs.org.uk |
| Welwyn Garden City |
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| Brentham
Garden Suburb |
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Other Architects (Very
Incomplete)
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Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912)
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W R Lethaby (1857-1931) 1 |
| C F A Voysey (1857-1941) 1 |
Baillie Scott (1865-1945) 1
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The Arts
and Crafts Home
Shop with Art and Craft info |
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| Some other influential
characters / organisations with Social and Political views on planning
either involved with Letchworth's development or the people responsibel
for its development |
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WHO
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HOW INVOLVED
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John Ruskin (1819-1900) 2
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Follow any of the links above
to get much more biographical information.
The link below gives access
to a massive collection of information and articles.
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/ruskin/ruskinov.html
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A Prolific
writer on art and architecture who became interested in the state of humanity
and social reform at about the age of 40. In one of his writings "Sesame
& Lillies" described his sociological ideas which in places anticipate
the ideals of the garden city movement.
Ebenezer Howard quoted from this
work at the beginning of chapter one of his work "Garden
Cities of Tomorrow" |
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(Sir) William Morris (1834-1896)
Links
Pre-Raphaelites
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
http://www.speel.demon.co.uk/artists/rossetti.htm
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/rossetti/
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/rossetti/rossetti.html
Edward Burne-Jones
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/burne-jones/
William Morris inc. (Painting
of Jane Burden)
http://www.webmagick.co.uk/prcoll/artists/morris/index.html
The
William Morris Gallery
The Red House, Upton, Kent
Philip
Webb(1831-1915)(Architect)
http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/wmorris/redhouse.htm
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/The_Red_House.html
See background and pictures of the exterior
and interior of the building at http://www.rebs.demon.co.uk/Introduction.html
Became Father figure of the Arts and Crafts
Movement . 1 . 2
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Founder of the Society for the protection
of ancient buildings http://www.burrows.com/morris/lesser.html.
Political writing
"News from Nowhere" (1881)
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/stor/nowh.html
Founder Member of the Socialist League http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUleague.htm
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During his
days at Exeter College Morris
began a life long friendship with (Sir)
Edward
Burne-Jones.(1833-1898) a painter who was a pupil of the painter poet
Rossetti.
The Pre-Raphaelites Movement was formed
in 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Millais. They
wanted to get back to group of artists and poets who broke away from the
conventional attitude toward most of the art of the day. Seeking inspiration
in a simpler more realistic approach to both art and literature. They were
much praised by Ruskin
Burne-Jones and Morris joined
the Pre-Raphaelites. Morris tried his hand at poetry, architecture
and painting. In 1859 he married Jane Burden (who had
modelled for him) and decided to build his own home "The
Red House"
Setting up his home, a true lover of beauty,
he wanted to furnish it in his taste , not the clumsy overdecorated style
that was the fashion, so he started to design his own.
Morris, Burne-Jones and Rossetti founded
an establishment for making artistic household furniture, curtains, rugs
, tapestries, wall-papers and stained glass.
Morris with the eye of an artist and the
skill of a master artisan threw himself into this venture, and through
his efforts managed to stimulate a national interest in, and love of beautiful
design and proper manufacture in every-day things.
A revolution which displaced the
mid Victorian style of furniture and decoration. There by earning
the reputation of being the father of the Arts and Crafts Movements.
Later became more concerned about the state
of society and he became an active socialist.
Quote" A man should put his heart into his work, and that work should
be the kind that he can care about" |
Edward Bellamy the man whose writing
(Looking Backward) inspired Ebenezer
Howard to action 1
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James S Buckingham
http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/buckham.htm |
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| George Bernard Shaw 2 |
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| The Fabian Society 1 |
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Edward Carpenter
(1844-1929)
Close friend of Raymond Unwin.
Socialist Philosopher - prescribed simple
life healthy, vegetarian and democratic.
Formed a rural commune at Millthorpe
nr
Sheffield.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUcarpenter.htm |
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| George Adams (1857-1910) friend of Edward
Carpenter and Raymond Unwin had been a craftsman and sandal maker
at Millthorpe and moved to Letchworth |
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Some Urban Planning Resources
and Reading |
Urban Planning, 1794-1918:
An International Anthology
of Articles, Conference Papers,
and Reports
http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/homepage.htm
Quality
of life in cities and an overview and guide to the literature
Urban Planning, 1794-1918
Bibliography of Source Material
http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/BIBLIOGR/titleabc.htm |
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