Take a working-class family living in a grimy, overcrowded urban slum. Move it to a spanking-clean, new garden city, cheerfully designed and well planned, where there are plenty of lawns, light and airy schools, spacious, rainproof shopping centers, no heavy traffic to menace the children. Would the family be happy in its new surroundings? The answer, as published last week in a report by Britain's Ministry of Housing: Not very.
The ministry's report dealt with the twelve elaborate garden cities, integrated with industrial facilities that were built by the Labor government in...
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