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The role of public utility societies in early British town planning and housing reform, 1901–36

Pages 125-165 | Published online: 08 May 2007

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  • The author is a Senior Planning Officer at the Department of the Environment, England. (These are his personal views and not those of the Department.) He studied town planning at Heriot Watt University/Edinburgh College of Art and his MSc, awarded in 1988, dealt with Works Housing and the Garden City Movement. He presented a paper on model industrial estates and works housing societies at the 1989 Bournville Conference, ‘The Garden City Tradition Re‐examined’.

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