The Invisible City of Homes 73 



In considering this aspect of the subject the fact 

 should be borne in mind that the people of the garden 

 homes share all of the advantages of the metropolis. 

 They are by no means detached from its life. As in the 

 case of the extremely well-to-do referred to in earlier 

 pages, they are of the city, though not in the city. 

 To a very large extent they enjoy the benefits and 

 avoid the drawbacks of both city and country. The- 

 aters, libraries, art galleries, pageants, and spectacles 

 of every sort ; big department stores ; opportunities to 

 see and hear the great of every land as they go on 

 their rounds; newspapers at morning and evening, 

 even the midnight extra all these, and much more, 

 are for the denizens of the garden homes, as much as 

 for the residents of the crowded towns. 



Why has this new and better form of life lingered 

 so long in the coming? Awaiting its logical hour in 

 the process of social evolution, perhaps ; yet that is 

 not all, for many have seen the light and wished to 

 follow it. This could not usually be done, at least 

 in the best way, by an individual family acting alone. 

 It calls for planned development; for the purchase 

 and subdivision of land upon a large scale ; for scientific 

 preparation of the soil; for the installation of com- 

 munity facilities and utilities, such as water-supply, 

 sewerage, parks and public buildings. In a word, for 

 the genius of social engineering, supplemented by an 

 amount of capital and executive capacity that shall 

 be equal to a large constructive task. All this belongs 

 rather more to the programme than to the philosophy 

 of the subject, and will be considered in its proper 



