Publisher's Information (from the Launch Press Release, July 2003)

To-morrow
A Peaceful Path to Real Reform

By Ebenezer Howard, (original edition) with new commentary by
Sir Peter Hall, Colin Ward and Dennis Hardy

With a foreword by David Lock,
Chairman of the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA)

Ebenezer Howard's To-Morrow is deservedly the most famous single publication in the history of modern town planning. It lead to the founding of the Garden City Association (today the Town and Country Planning Association) by Howard, in 1899. This grew into an international movement, one that spawned garden cities and garden suburbs in countries as diverse as France and Argentina, Germany and Japan, Russia and the United States. Here in its homeland, the movement led to the construction of nearly thirty government-financed new towns following the Second World War, including examples as notable as Stevenage, Harlow and Milton Keynes.

Published in 1898, To-Morrow was repeatedly republished under its now more familiar title Garden Cities of To-Morrow, and translated into many languages. Yet somehow, despite the original illustrations and vibrant colours, To-Morrow has never since been republished in its original form. Few have even seen this beautifully crafted book.
Until now…

To celebrate the centenary of the first garden city at *Letchworth, the Town and Country Planning Association has performed an amazing service to planners and fans of the Garden City Movement everywhere by commissioning a facsimile edition of a rare first edition of To-Morrow.

Accompanied by a running scholarly commentary on the text, and by a newly-written editorial introduction and postscript, jointly written by Britain's three leading scholars on Howard's life and work, this book is destined to become a standard purchase for every serious student and practitioner of planning, and for those fascinated by modern social, economic and political history.

To-morrow, published by Routledge in June 2003
216x279: 248pp Hb: 0-415-31747-9: £65.00
Beautifully illustrated with 5 line drawings, 60 b+w photos and 8pp of colour plates

(*Letchworth, `The First Garden City', is arguably the finest example of the Movement. In its early days this idyllic location had a reputation for `smocks, sandals, and scandals', a heady mixture, and one that attracted much criticism in its day - according to George Orwell, it was a place where one could find "every fruit juice drinker, sandal wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, nature cure quack, pacifist and feminist in England"…. )

July 2003