... for class conflict. His book 'Garden Cities of Tomorrow' outlined a utopian socialist alternative to the evils of existing urban society; - especially the huge urban concentration of London. Howard and the garden city movement saw the garden city as a tightly organised urban centre for 30000 inhabitants, surrounded by a 'green belt' of parks and farms. They wanted to create both a quiet residential neighbourhood and facilities for commercial, industrial and cultural activities. They didn't see the garden city as a specialised "satellite town", perpetually serving some great metropolis. They saw the great cities of the time sinking away into insignificance e.g. people dessert them for a new way of life in a decentralised society. Therefore no longer would a single metropolis dominate a whole region or even a whole nation. Instead, they proposed that the urban population should be distributed among hundreds of garden cities, with the idea ...

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