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Book SynopsisFor nearly 150 years living in a house in the country has been what many of us aspire to. This book explores how this idea was imported from the US by Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement, the impact it has had in the UK and why, on cost and environmental grounds, it's time to move on from this approach....
Trade ReviewThe convincing case for why our future is urban -- Danny Dorling
How do you persuade buyers your new development isn't really in a city? Call it a 'garden suburb' or a 'garden city'. Anyone curious about the origin of those two strange oxymorons can learn much from Simon Matthews's
House in the Country, a history of British town planning over the past two centuries * Telegraph *
In the light of the government's recent proposal of a 'benefits to bricks' scheme to 'reinvigorate the council housing Right to Buy programme',
House in the Country is timely, offering a decent primer on how we've ended up where we are when it comes to housing * Spectator *
Anyone interested in the challenges of housing policy will want to read this methodical analysis of what went well and what did not over much of the last century
-- Lord Heseltine
