Reassessing the Legacy of Twentieth-Century New Towns

Four books are reviewed and discussed: Planting New Towns in Europe in the Interwar Years: Experiments and Dreams for Future Societies, edited by Helen Meller and Heleni Porfyriou; Loic Vadelorge's Retour sur les villes nouvelles: une histoire urbaine du XXe siecle (Returning to the 'Villes Nouvelles'; an Urban History of the Twentieth Century); Rosemary Wakeman's Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement; and Stephen V. Ward's The Peaceful Path: Building Garden Cities and New Towns.