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Ebenezer Howard

1850 - 1928

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Sir Ebenezer Howard (29 January 1850 – 1 May 1928) was an English urban planner and founder of the garden city movement, known for his publication To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898), the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature. The publication resulted in the founding of the garden city movement, and the building of the first garden city, Letchworth Garden City, commenced in 1903. The second true Garden City was Welwyn Garden City (1920) and the movement influenced the development of several model suburbs in other countries, such as Forest Hills Gardens designed by F. L. Olmsted Jr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ebenezer Howard has received more than 532,183 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ebenezer Howard is the 215th most popular architect (down from 117th in 2019), the 1,666th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 861st in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Architect.

Ebenezer Howard is most famous for being the founder of the garden city movement.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Ebenezer Howard ranks 215 out of 424Before him are Nicholas Negroponte, Lilly Reich, Carlo Fontana, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, and Eero Aarnio. After him are Baysunghur, Glenn Murcutt, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Archibald Leitch, Giuseppe Terragni, and Pierre Jeanneret.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Ebenezer Howard ranks 36Before him are Zdeněk Fibich, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, Pavel Axelrod, Jack Daniel, Giuseppe Mercalli, and Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud. After him are John Collier, Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia, George Huntington, Nikolai Golitsyn, Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and Kate Chopin. Among people deceased in 1928, Ebenezer Howard ranks 46Before him are Léon Duguit, Antonio Abetti, Adolphe Appia, Alvin Kraenzlein, Otto Nordenskjöld, and Hannah Chaplin. After him are Francis Preserved Leavenworth, Hermann Sudermann, Edward Walter Maunder, Frank Dicksee, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, and Eglantyne Jebb.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ebenezer Howard ranks 1,666 out of 7,765Before him are Christina Rossetti (1830), Christopher Robin Milne (1920), Edward Young (1683), Mark of Cornwall (480), Elsa Lanchester (1902), and James Bruce (1730). After him are Gytha of Wessex (1053), Orlando Gibbons (1583), Vince Clarke (1960), Steven Runciman (1903), Henry Sidgwick (1838), and Steve Howe (1947).

Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Ebenezer Howard ranks 9Before him are James Stirling (1926), Inigo Jones (1573), Robert Adam (1728), Joseph Paxton (1803), Michael Ventris (1922), and John Nash (1752). After him are Glenn Murcutt (1936), Archibald Leitch (1865), Augustus Pugin (1812), Charles Barry (1795), William Kent (1685), and John Vanbrugh (1664).