Dr. Pat Simpson - Prince Peter Kropotkin: Anarchism, eugenics and the utopian ideal of Letchworth...

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Prince Peter Kropotkin: Anarchism, Eugenics and the Utopian Ideal of Letchworth Garden CityDr Pat Simpson, School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire

‘by a hair’s breadth…Kropotkin, Morris and Ruskin failed to give expression to the garden city idea themselves’.Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of Tomorrow 1902

William Morris John Ruskin

Prince Peter Kropotkin

Image of a bomb-throwing anarchistby from tv.tropes

Ebeneezer Howard’s three magnets diagram regarding the advantages and disadvantages of living in towns and in the countryside. Garden Cities of Tomorrow, 1902.

Prince Peter Kropotkin

William Morris

Prince Peter Kropotkin

Sergei Stepniak, photo by Elliot and Fry, n.d, illustration for ‘Russian Boys and Their Games: A Chat with Stepniak, the Russian Nihilist’, in Chums, November 8, 1893, p.168

Prince Peter Kropotkin

‘The Cloisters’, Letchworth Garden City