The three magnets

Howard’s three magnets

Ebenezer Howard’s "Three Magnets" diagram, 1898, Tomorrow : A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1898.

The text reads : THE THREE MAGNETS THE PEOPLE Where will they go ?

• Town Closing out of nature.
• Social opportunity.
• Isolation of crowds.
• Places of amusement.
• Distance from work.
• High money wages.
• High rents & prices.
• Chances of employment.
• Excessive hours.
• Army of unemployed.
• Fogs and droughts.
• Costly drainage.
• Foul air.
• Murky sky.
• Well-lit streets.
• Slums & gin palaces.
• Palatial edifices.

• Country Lack of society.
• Beauty of nature.
• Hands out of work.
• Land lying idle.
• Trespassers beware.
• Wood, meadow, forest.
• Long hours, low wages.
• Fresh air.
• Low rents.
• Lack of drainage.
• Abundance of water.
• Lack of amusement.
• Bright sunshine.
• No public spirit.
• Need for reform.
• Crowded dwellings.
• Deserted villages.
   
• Town-Country Beauty of nature.
• Social opportunity.
• Fields and parks of easy access.
• Low rents, high wages.
• Low rates, plenty to do.
• Low prices, no sweating.
• Field for enterprise, flow of capital.
• Pure air and water, good drainage.
• Bright homes & gardens, no smoke, no slums.
• Freedom.
• Co-operation.