CIVIC RECONSTRUCTION AND THE GARDEN CITY MOVEMENT.

The article discusses key issues concerning the Garden City movement and civic reconstruction in Europe. The movement is an attempt to re-organize social conditions. Man represents the more individual and woman the more racial and unifying aspect in humanity. The woman, more obviously than the man, lives not for her alone but for others, and considers herself as part of a larger whole. The modern and womanly spirit of sympathy and oneness, influencing men as well as women, shows itself in part in sympathy with women and their claims, and in part drives us to grapple with the social problems of poverty and disorganization. It is admitted that Europe is moving from an age of individualism to an age of social or civic re-organization, and this tendency is connected with the woman movement. It is a recognition of the fact that man does not live by bread alone, and that fair wages and houseroom in a dull street are not all that he need ask of life. It is a demand for recognition of the common life in all its aspects, material and immaterial.