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Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening Horticulture and Land Design.
Despite the multiplicity of publications on urban development there has for a long time been a need for a clear and coherent presentation of recent developments in town planning. The present publication aims to fill this gap. It begins at the point at which the pattern for the urban constellation of our times was set by the upheavals of the French Revolution and by industrialization. The survey adopts the Anglo-Saxon narrative approach to history, and deals with the main town planning factors that came to the fore in the 19th century: industrialization and urban growth; Utopian models for estates and towns; urban redevelopment, urban improvement and urban expansion; paternalistic provision of workers' housing; aesthetic attempts at renewal and approaches to reform through the idea of the garden city. The treatment of these themes makes it clear to what extent the present situation in towns and cities was determined by 19th-century ideas and enterprises. Thus the book gives anyone interested in urban development a supply of facts and strategies, making it a compendium of important criteria for future urban planning decisions.
