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This is an archived article published in September 2003 and updated in October 2003 IFHP 2003 congress discussed effects of globalisation on cities The International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP), founded in 1913 by Ebenezer Howard, the father of the ‘garden city’, used its 47th world congress to celebrate the organisation’s 90th anniversary. |
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