Sir Ebenezer Howard is known for his publication Garden Cities of To-morrow

Garden Cities of To-morrow

Garden Cities of To-morrow is a book by the British urban planner Ebenezer Howard. When it was published in 1898, the book was titled To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. In 1902 it was reprinted as Garden Cities of To-Morrow...

(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

Garden city movement

The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts" , containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and...

, that realized several Garden Cities in Great Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. Billerica Garden Suburb,Inc.(1914), was the first housing in the United States on the Howard plan.
Ebenezer Howard was born in Fore Street, City of London, the son of a shopkeeper.