Ebenezer Howard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ebenezer Howard

British writer, founder of the garden city movement

Date of Birth: 29-Jan-1850

Place of Birth: City of London, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-May-1928

Profession: architect, urban planner, Esperantist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Sir Ebenezer Howard (29 January 1850 – 1 May 1928), the English founder of the garden city movement, is known for his publication To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898), the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature.
The publication resulted in the founding of the garden city movement, and the building of the first garden city, Letchworth Garden City, commenced in 1903.
The second true Garden City was Welwyn Garden City (1920) and the movement influenced the development of several model suburbs in other countries, such as Forest Hills Gardens designed by F.
L.
Olmsted Jr.
in 1909, Radburn NJ (1923) and the Suburban Resettlement Program towns of the 1930s (Greenbelt, Maryland; Greenhills, Ohio; Greenbrook, New Jersey and Greendale, Wisconsin).Howard aimed to reduce the alienation of humans and society from nature, and hence advocated garden cities and Georgism.
Howard is believed by many to be one of the great guides to the town planning movement, with many of his garden city principles being used in modern town planning.