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- Title
Lewis Mumford and the New Town Movement: Implications for Education.
- Authors
Conrad, David
- Abstract
The article focuses on social philosopher Lewis Mumford's conception of a garden city or New Town movement. As early as the 1920s, Mumford asserted that the essential elements in garden cities, the common holding of land by the community and the cooperative operation and direction of the community itself by all the people, were neither distinctive nor completely new to the United States. Mumford is interested in a dynamic community, but that does not mean he favors the present high rate of transiency which breeds rootlessness and alienation. Mumford sees the garden city as part of a regional network of towns and cities. Mumford knows that a single garden city or even a scattering of mini-cities would not be adequate. Due to the planning of towns and cities at the present time, educators are offered magnificent opportunities to involve students in research, planning, analysis, design and even execution of new cities. Mumford wants to plan with people, but much of his efforts in New Town planning deal with planning a balanced community for people.
- Subjects
MUMFORD, Lewis, 1895-1990; PHILOSOPHERS; GARDEN cities; NEW cities &; towns; PLANNED communities; SOCIAL alienation; CITIES &; towns; EDUCATORS; STUDENTS
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1972, Vol 73, Issue 4, p559
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146817207300407