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The Happy Colony [and] Hygeia : A City of Health

Pemberton, Robert; Benjamin Ward Richardson

New York: Garland Publishing, 1985.

Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine with no dust jacket. Item #15154
ISBN: 0824062795

Slight wear. Crisp hardcover.; Facsimile reprints of The Happy Colony / Robert Pemberton, originally published London: Saunders and Otley 1854, and Hygeia : A City of Health / Benjamin Ward Richardson, originally published London: Macmillan 1876. Pemberton's work proposes a utopian settlement in New Zealand for the working class without private property. Richardson, a prominent physician and sanitarian, proposes what a city should be if sanitary science were advanced in a proper manner. Victorian views of utopian ideal cities influenced the development of town planning in England. ; The Rise Of Urban Britain; 217, (2), 47, 3 ad pages.

Price: $69.95