In 1919, Sir Ebenezer Howard, the garden city movement's founder, bought land for a second town following his first project, Letchworth Garden City. The town was born in April 1920, when the ...

The government is investing more than £300m in building what George Osborne has described as the first “proper” garden city in nearly a century, near Ebbsfleet, Kent.. To understand what ...

Founded in 1903, Letchworth Garden City was the brainchild of social reformer Ebenezer Howard, whose vision to improve lives for people by combining the best of living and working in the town and ...