... was developed in the 1920's and 1930's as a place for people to live. Burnage was developed to improve the living conditions of Manchester's population, over 300 000 people were crowded into the cramped and disease ridden housing of the inner city. The city council was employed groups of people who had trained as town planners. Their job was to plan new developments such as those that were built in places like Burnage. Many of these planners were influenced by the ideas of a person called Ebenezer Howard. Howard wrote a very important book called 'Garden Cities of Tomorrow' in which he argued for a more pleasant living environment for city people. He believed that people should live in 'semi-rural' environments where houses had gardens and there was plenty of open space for recreational purposes. Many town planners took on his ideas when they started to plan the development of ...

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