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Ebenezer Howard, an Uncommon card
Sir Ebenezer Howard was an English urban planner and founder of the garden city movement, known for his publication To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 130
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 32,000
Power 130 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Ebenezer Howard quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ebenezer Howard card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Howard aimed to reduce the ______ of humans and society from nature, and hence advocated garden cities and Georgism.
Answer
alienation. Howard aimed to reduce the alienation of humans and society from nature, and hence advocated garden cities and Georgism. From the Ebenezer Howard article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The publication resulted in the founding of the garden city movement, and the building of the first garden city, Letchworth Garden City, commenced in ____.
Answer
1900s. The publication resulted in the founding of the garden city movement, and the building of the first garden city, Letchworth Garden City, commenced in 1903. From the Ebenezer Howard article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of submarines of World War II. List of submarines of World War II 100 · Joe Cronin 70 · Ebenezer Howard 67 · Browsing 64 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The publication resulted in the founding of the garden city movement, and the building of the first garden city, Letchworth Garden City, commenced in 1903.
- The second true Garden City was Welwyn Garden City and the movement influenced the development of several model suburbs in other countries, such as Forest Hills Gardens designed by F. L. Olmsted Jr.
- Howard aimed to reduce the alienation of humans and society from nature, and hence advocated garden cities and Georgism.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ebenezer Howard article was read about 32,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Ebenezer Howard
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ebenezer Howard (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The original uploader was Marnanel at English Wikipedia ., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
