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Inspired by the in 1903, and Welwyn Garden City in 1920. (Letchworth is commonly referred to as such, and Welwyn called by its full name.) Both designs are durable successes and healthy communities today, although not a full realization of Howard's ideals.

The idea of the garden city was influential in the United States (in Radburn, New Jersey ), in German worker housing built in the Weimar years, and again in England after World War II , when the New Towns Act triggered the development of many new communities based on Howard's egalitarian vision.


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