"Garden cities are the creation of one man, Ebenezer Howard. Howard was a shorthand writer at the Law Courts in London. A non-conformist, as a result of sojourn in the United States he had come under the influence of Emerson, Lincoln, Lowell and Whitman; and it is on record that his garden city plans were derived from reading Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888. He determined that the most practical way to realize Bellamy's ideas in England was 'to build by private enterprise pervaded by public spirit an entirely new town, industrial, residential, and agricultural'. This was the idea upon which he enlarged in the book published in 1898 and which he carried forward nine months later by the formation of a Garden City Association."--PMM 387.