From the same team that produced the monumental five-volume architectural history of New York comes the definitive work on the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that first emerged in England in the 1830s and still dominates residential architecture today. As malls are abandoned and mortgages are foreclosed, the retrofitting of the suburbs is a central issue in urban planning today. New strategies are emerging - creating walk-able communities with social and retail centres - that hark back to the original concept of the suburb. 'Paradise Planned' is a comprehensive, encyclopaedic record of this development, a vital contribution to architectural history.