Sir Ebenezer Howard OBE
(1850-1928)

Died aged c. 78

Sir Ebenezer Howard OBE (29 January 1850 – 1 May 1928) was an English urban planner and founder of the garden city movement, 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), Pinelands, Cape Town 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.

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Commemorated on 3 plaques

Ebenezer Howard 1850-1928 pioneer of the Garden City Movement lived here

50 Durley Road, Stamford Hill, N16, London, United Kingdom where they lived

Near this spot at 62 Fore Street on the 29th January 1850 was born Sir Ebenezer Howard founder of the Garden City Movement

London Wall, EC2, London, United Kingdom where they was born near (1850)

Ebenezer Howard OBE creator of garden cities lived here 1923-1928

5 Guessens Road, Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom where they lived (1923-1928)