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Ebenezer Howard

1850 - 1928

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Sir Ebenezer Howard (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, New Jersey (1923), Pinelands, Cape Town, and the four Suburban Resettlement Program towns of the 1930s, Greenbelt, Maryland, Greenhills, Ohio, Greenbrook, New Jersey, and Greendale, Wisconsin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ebenezer Howard is the 161st most popular architect (down from 155th in 2019), the 1,527th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,241st in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Architect.

Ebenezer Howard is most famous for being the founder of the garden city movement.

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Among architects, Ebenezer Howard ranks 161 out of 518. Before him are Lina Bo Bardi, Alonzo Cano, Carlo Fontana, Paul Troost, Charlotte Perriand, and Eero Saarinen. After him are Carl Ludvig Engel, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Robert Adam, Jean Chalgrin, Fazlur Rahman Khan, and Paul Andreu.

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Among people born in 1850, Ebenezer Howard ranks 35. Before him are Mikhail Chigorin, Ivan Vazov, Pat Garrett, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, Zdeněk Fibich, and Nikolai Golitsyn. After him are Pavel Axelrod, Giuseppe Mercalli, Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud, Jack Daniel, Hans Hartwig von Beseler, and Kate Chopin. Among people deceased in 1928, Ebenezer Howard ranks 34. Before him are Armando Diaz, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Myrtle Corbin, Antonio Abetti, Alvin Kraenzlein, and Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden. After him are Jan Toorop, Hideyo Noguchi, Francis Preserved Leavenworth, Pavel Axelrod, Lala Lajpat Rai, and José Sánchez del Río.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ebenezer Howard ranks 1,527 out of 8,785. Before him are Karen Armstrong (1944), John Higgins (1975), Phil Neville (1977), Simon Rattle (1955), Dave Holland (1946), and Pattie Boyd (1944). After him are Geezer Butler (1949), Shirley Bassey (1937), Nick Frost (1972), Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867), George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737), and Jeremy Clarkson (1960).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Ebenezer Howard ranks 8. Before him are Christopher Wren (1632), Augustus Pugin (1812), Capability Brown (1716), George Gilbert Scott (1811), Inigo Jones (1573), and James Stirling (1926). After him are Robert Adam (1728), William Burges (1827), David Chipperfield (1953), John Vanbrugh (1664), Michael Ventris (1922), and Nora Stanton Barney (1883).

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