Ebenezer Howard

(1850-1928) lived in Howard County. Writer, planner, considered originator of the garden city movement which influenced town planning internationally, he organized the first garden city in 1903 at Letchworth, England to remedy problems of overcrowding in urban areas and depopulation of the countryside and to encourage moral and spiritual qualities; his book Garden Cities of Tomorrow (1902) was translated into many languages, and groups were established in Europe and the United States to encourage formation of garden cities; knighted by King George V in 1927. Consult Dictionary of National Biography 1922-1930 (Oxford University Press, 1937) 434-437 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, December 27, 1959, p. 2 and Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, Vol 2 (Free Press, 1982) 430.

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