"Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier responded to social conditions which were, in many respects, worse than our own by detaching themselves from immediate action to devote thousands of hours to their urban utopias. But detachment is not necessarily escapism; for the three planners believed that before they could take effective action they had to stage a strategic withdrawal into their own minds. They wanted to escape from the inevitable limitations of short-term solutions devised for particular cities. Instead, they tried to consider the urban problem as a whole. They wanted to comprehend the logic of the twentieth-century city, its inherent structure, and its most efficient form. They attempted to look beyond the distortions that an inhumane social order had imposed upon the cities of their time, and to envision a city based on social justice and equality."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Robert Fishman, in Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and le Corbusier (1977).
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Howard
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Ebenezer Howard
Ebenezer Howard (29 January 1850 – 1 May 1928) was a prominent British town planner famous publication Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898), prescribing utopian cities in which man lives harmoniously together with the rest of nature. The publication led to the founding of the Garden city movement, that realized several Garden Cities in Great Britain at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
4 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Ebenezer Howard →
Related Quotes
"In these days of strong party feeling and of keenly-contested social and religious issues, it might perhaps be though…"
"All, then, are agreed on the pressing nature of this problem, all are bent on its solution, and though it would doubt…"
"Whatever may have been the causes which have operated in the past, and are operating now, to draw the people into the…"
"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"
"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"
"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"
"Fairies are very shy creatures and prefer to keep themselves hidden from human eyes"
"If you look very carefully, you may see a fairy in your garden"
"The world of fairies is all around us, though we seldom notice it"
"Fairies, elves, mermaids and water-babies inhabit the magical world created by Shirley Barber"