"Green-Belt Cities is still the best summary of the essential ideas behind the new towns movement. More than that: this book embodies the valuable experience in coping with planning, administrative, technical and social problems, which he himself had acquired as estate manager and resident in Welwyn Garden City. - Lewis Mumford"
New towns(3rd Edition) Their origins, achievements, and progress by Arnold Whittick, Sir FredericOsborn, FredericJamesOsborn Hardcover, 506 Pages, Published 1977 by Blackie Academic & Professional (An Imprint Of Chapman & Hall) ISBN-13: 978-0-249-44140-6, ISBN: 0-249-44140-3
"Book by Osborn, Sir Frederic, Whittick, Arnold"
The New Towns(Updated) The Answer to Megalopolis by Arnold Whittick, FredericJamesOsborn Hardcover, 456 Pages, Published 1970 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-15010-1, ISBN: 0-262-15010-7
""The original (and still most weighty) reason for building new towns, in the minds of their advocates and pioneering experimenters, was the necessity of reducing the concentration of people and workplaces in very large towns, which otherwise cannot be relieved of congestion, disorder and squalor and rebuilt on a fully healthy, socially satisfactory or efficient pattern. A complementary motive was that new towns based on modern industry, ..."
"Originally published in 1898 as To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform and reissued in 1902 under its present title, Garden Cities of To-Morrow holds a unique place in town planning literature. The book led directly to two experiments in town-founding that have had a profound influence on practical urban development around the world. The book was also responsible for the ..."