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= Elizabeth Buchanan Mitchell = Born in Edinburgh in 1880, Elizabeth Mitchell was one of Scotland's leading early female town planners and a pioneer in the profession. She campaigned tirelessly for the importance of open spaces, gardens and quality mass-housing.

Education
Elizabeth Mitchell grew up in Edinburgh and attended St George's School for Girls, Edinburgh University and then Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford.

She worked as a Classical Lecturer at Royal Holloway College in Egham, Surrey, and in 1909 she set up a school in Hampshire for young ladies, but it closed three years later.

Garden City Town Planning Association and New Towns work
Mitchell was interested in the Garden City movement from a young age. She was involved in a wide range of activities, including teaching, setting up the Women’s Agricultural Committee, and being elected to various posts in local authorities.

Elizabeth Mitchell played a key role in setting up the GCTPA Scottish Section, in which she served as Chair of the Executive. She was a member of the Board of the Development Corporation for East Kilbride, the first New Town to be designated in Scotland in May 1947, and argued hard for designation of the Scottish New Town at Cumbernauld. Her personal memoirs record her pleasure in being part of the movement, yet she dryly observed (on page 28): ‘I was appointed as ‘the woman’ … I confess I thought I was an inadequate representative of womanhood as a whole, never having been a housewife.’ In 1955 the TCPA awarded her the Howard Memorial Medal for her ‘consistent adherence and distinguished service to the garden city movement’.