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Date

4-1969

Description

Letchworth was one of the first of England’s “new towns,” and Sir Ebeneezer Howard’s first Garden City. While living in the United States, Howard was influenced by the poet Walt Whitman, among others, to tackle the problems of urban life. His idea was the garden city, which he wrote about in his 1898 publication Garden Cities of To-morrow. This photograph was taken in the Letchworth’s Town Center at Station Place.

Notes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letchworth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Howard

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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Creator 2 Dates

1850-1928

Creator 2 Role

Urban Planner

Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

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Keywords

garden cities, new towns, Hertforshire, Letchworth, town center, sir ebeneezer howard, street scene

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