Colin Ward
1993

ISBN 978 0 903319 62 1

The New Towns are no longer new. Their pioneer settlers are grandparents and New Town has become home town for two generations. The last and largest of the New Town Corporations in England and Wales was wound down in 1992. Those in Scotland will last until the end of the century.

This book traces the origins of the New Towns in the Garden City movement, judges their performance, and asks if we need a new generation of New Towns.

Colin Ward’s many books explore every kind of popular use of the environment, from allotments to holiday camps. He won the Angel Literary Award for non-fiction in 1985 and was given the first Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award to write Welcome, Thinner City, published by Bedford Square Press in 1989. He has been a New Town watcher for 40 years and knows both their successes and their failures, giving credit where it is due.

Colin Ward is the author of such key books as The Child in the City, Tenants Take Over and Reflected in Water: A crisis of social responsibility and he wrote the Gulbenkian Foundation’s report Havens and Springboards: The Foyer movement in context (1997). He was awarded an honorary doctorate at Middlesex University in 1994 and was appointed as a visiting centennial professor at the London School of Economics in 1996.