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==Early Life==
 
==Early Life==
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Born in [[Rotherham]], [[South Yorkshire]], Unwin became an engineer for the Staveley Iron and Coal Company in [[Derbyshire]], where he was responsible, among other things, for constructing miners' housing. Inclined towards [[Christian Socialism]], he came under the influence of [[John Ruskin]] and [[William Morris]], and also the early utopian [[socialist]] Edward Carpenter, visiting him the utopian community Carpenter had founded near [[Sheffield]]. In 1893 his marriage brought him into close contact with [[Barry Parker]] - the two men married sisters - and they set up an architectural practice together. Their 1901 book, The Art of Building a Home, gained them the attention of the [[Arts and Crafts Movement]].
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Born in [[Rotherham]], [[South Yorkshire]], Unwin became an engineer for the Staveley Iron and Coal Company in [[Derbyshire]], where he was responsible, among other things, for constructing miners' housing. Inclined towards [[Christian Socialism]], he came under the influence of [[John Ruskin]] and [[William Morris]], and also the early utopian [[socialist]] Edward Carpenter, visiting him the utopian community Carpenter had founded near [[Sheffield]]. In 1893 his marriage brought him into close contact with [[Barry Parker]] - the two men married sisters - and they set up an architectural practice together. Their 1901 book, The Art of Building a Home, gained them the attention of the [[Arts and Crafts Movement]]. The following year, Unwin and Parker were commissioned to design a model village at New Earswick, near [[York]], for the [[Quaker]] Rowntree family, philanthropic chocolate manufacturers in the city. This created a stir, not only for the quality of the workers' housing provided, but for the innovative layout of the estate, with curved streets, much tree-planting, and a low density of development.
    
==The Garden City==
 
==The Garden City==
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In 1903 Unwin and Parker were selected to lay out the site of the First Garden City at [[Letchworth]], [[Hertfoprdshire]], along the lines recommended by [[Ebenezer Howard]], the settlement's founder.
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