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The '''garden city movement''' was a 20th century ] movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with ]s. These Garden Cities would contain proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture. ] first posited the idea in 1898 as a way to capture the primary benefits of the countryside and the city while avoiding the disadvantages presented by both. In the early 20th century, ], ] and ] were built in or near London according to Howard's concept and many other garden cities inspired by his model have since been built all over the world.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the City|last=Caves|first=R. W.|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|pages=281}}</ref> The '''garden city movement''' was a 20th century ] movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with ]s. These Garden Cities would contain proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture. ] first posited the idea in 1898 as a way to capture the primary benefits of the countryside and the city while avoiding the disadvantages presented by both. In the early 20th century, ], ], and ] were built in or near London according to Howard's concept and many other garden cities inspired by his ] have since been built all over the world.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the City|last=Caves|first=R. W.|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|pages=281}}</ref>


==History== ==History==
===Conception=== ===Conception===
] ]


Inspired by the ] novel '']'' by ], and ]'s work '']'', Howard published the book ''{{sic|hide=y|To-morrow}}: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform'' in 1898 (which was reissued in 1902 as '']''). His idealised garden city would house 32,000 people on a site of {{convert|9000|acre}}, planned on a ] pattern with open spaces, public parks and six radial ]s, {{convert|120|ft|m|abbr=on}} wide, extending from the centre. The garden city would be self-sufficient and when it reached full population, another would be developed nearby. Howard envisaged a cluster of several garden cities as ] of a central city of 58,000 people, linked by road and rail.<ref>{{Citation | last = Goodall | first = B | year = 1987 | title = Dictionary of Human Geography | place = London | publisher = Penguin}}.</ref> Inspired by the ] novel '']'' by ], and ]'s work '']'', Howard published the book ''{{sic|hide=y|To-morrow}}: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform'' in 1898 (reissued in 1902 as '']''). His idealised garden city would house 32,000 people on a site of {{convert|9000|acre}}. Howard's diagrams presented such a city in a ] pattern with open spaces, ], and six radial ]s, {{convert|120|ft|m|abbr=on}} wide, extending from the centre, although he made it clear that the actual site planning should be left to experts. The garden city would be self-sufficient and when it reached full population, another would be developed nearby. Howard envisaged a cluster of several garden cities as ] of a central city of 58,000 people, linked by road and rail.<ref>{{Citation | last = Goodall | first = B | year = 1987 | title = Dictionary of Human Geography | place = London | publisher = Penguin}}.</ref>


Howard's ''{{sic|hide=y|To-morrow}}: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform'' sold enough copies to result in a second edition, ''Garden Cities of {{sic|hide=y|To-morrow}}''. This success provided him the support necessary to pursue the chance to bring his vision into reality. Howard believed that all people agreed the overcrowding and deterioration of cities was one of the troubling issues of their time. He quotes a number of respected thinkers and their disdain of cities. Howard's garden city concept combined the town and country in order to provide the ] an alternative to working on farms or in "crowded, unhealthy cities".<ref>{{Citation | last = Howard | first = E | year = 1902 | title = Garden Cities of To-morrow | edition = 2nd | publisher = S. Sonnenschein & Co | place = London | pages = 2–7}}.</ref> Howard's ''{{sic|hide=y|To-morrow}}: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform'' sold enough copies to warrant a second edition, now titled ''Garden Cities of {{sic|hide=y|To-morrow}}''. This success of this book provided him the support necessary to pursue the chance to bring his vision into reality. Howard believed that all people agreed the overcrowding and deterioration of cities was one of the troubling issues of their time. He quotes a number of respected thinkers and their disdain of cities. Howard's garden city concept combined the town and country in order to provide the ] an alternative to working on farms or in "crowded, unhealthy cities".<ref>{{Citation | last = Howard | first = E | year = 1902 | title = Garden Cities of To-morrow | edition = 2nd | publisher = S. Sonnenschein & Co | place = London | pages = 2–7}}.</ref>


===First developments=== ===First developments===
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In 1904, ], a noted architect and town planner, and his partner ], won the competition run by First Garden City Ltd. to plan Letchworth, an area 34 miles outside London.{{Sfn | Hall | 2002 | p = 68}} Unwin and Parker planned the town in the centre of the Letchworth estate with Howard's large agricultural greenbelt surrounding the town, and they shared Howard's notion that the working class deserved better and more affordable housing. However, the architects ignored Howard's symmetric design, instead replacing it with a more 'organic' design.{{Sfn | Fainstein | Campbell | 2003 | p = 48}} In 1904, ], a noted architect and town planner, and his partner ], won the competition run by First Garden City Ltd. to plan Letchworth, an area 34 miles outside London.{{Sfn | Hall | 2002 | p = 68}} Unwin and Parker planned the town in the centre of the Letchworth estate with Howard's large agricultural greenbelt surrounding the town, and they shared Howard's notion that the working class deserved better and more affordable housing. However, the architects ignored Howard's symmetric design, instead replacing it with a more 'organic' design.{{Sfn | Fainstein | Campbell | 2003 | p = 48}}


Letchworth slowly attracted more residents because it brought in manufacturers through low taxes, low rents and more space.{{Sfn | Fainstein | Campbell | 2003 | p = 50}} Despite Howard's best efforts, the home prices in this garden city could not remain affordable for ] workers to live in. The populations comprised mostly skilled ] workers. After a decade, the First Garden City became profitable and started paying dividends to its investors.{{Sfn | Hall | 2002 | p = 100}} Although many viewed Letchworth as a success, it did not immediately inspire government investment into the next line of garden cities. Letchworth slowly attracted more residents because it brought in manufacturers through low taxes, low rents, and more space.{{Sfn | Fainstein | Campbell | 2003 | p = 50}} Despite Howard's best efforts, the home prices in this garden city could not remain affordable for ] workers to live in. The populations comprised mostly skilled ] workers. After a decade, the First Garden City became profitable and started paying dividends to its investors.{{Sfn | Hall | 2002 | p = 100}} Although many viewed Letchworth as a success, it did not immediately inspire government investment into the next line of garden cities.


In reference to the lack of government support for garden cities, Frederic James Osborn, a colleague of Howard and his eventual successor at the Garden City Association, recalled him saying, "The only way to get anything done is to do it yourself."{{Sfn | Hall | Ward | 1998 | pp = 45–7}} Likely in frustration, Howard bought land at ] to house the second garden city in 1919.{{Sfn | Hardy | 1999 | p = 8}} The purchase was at auction, with money Howard desperately and successfully borrowed from friends. The ] Corporation was formed to oversee the construction. But Welwyn did not become self-sustaining because it was only 20 miles from London.{{Sfn | Hall | Ward | 1998 | p = 46}} In reference to the lack of government support for garden cities, Frederic James Osborn, a colleague of Howard and his eventual successor at the Garden City Association, recalled him saying, "The only way to get anything done is to do it yourself."{{Sfn | Hall | Ward | 1998 | pp = 45–7}} Likely in frustration, Howard bought land at ] to house the second garden city in 1919.{{Sfn | Hardy | 1999 | p = 8}} The purchase was at auction, with money Howard desperately and successfully borrowed from friends. The ] Corporation was formed to oversee the construction. But Welwyn did not become self-sustaining because it was only 20 miles from London.{{Sfn | Hall | Ward | 1998 | p = 46}}
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Even until the end of the 1930s, Letchworth and Welwyn remained as the only existing garden cities in the United Kingdom. However, the movement did succeed in emphasizing the need for urban planning policies that eventually led to the ].{{Sfn | Hall | Ward | 1998 | pp = 52–3}} Even until the end of the 1930s, Letchworth and Welwyn remained as the only existing garden cities in the United Kingdom. However, the movement did succeed in emphasizing the need for urban planning policies that eventually led to the ].{{Sfn | Hall | Ward | 1998 | pp = 52–3}}


== Garden cities == == Garden cities: the spread of an idea ==
], the garden city of ]<ref> (in Finnish)</ref>]]
Howard organised the ] in 1899. Two garden cities were built using Howard's ideas: ] and ], both in the county of ], England, United Kingdom. Howard's successor as chairman of the Garden City Association was ], who extended the movement to regional planning.<ref>{{Citation |url = http://www.tcpa.org.uk/data/files/18991999.pdf |title=History 1899–1999 |publisher=TCPA |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727123822/http://www.tcpa.org.uk/data/files/18991999.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-27 }}.</ref> Howard organised the ] in 1899. Two garden cities were built using Howard's ideas: ] and ], both in the county of ], England, United Kingdom. Howard's successor as chairman of the Garden City Association was ], who extended the movement to regional planning.<ref>{{Citation |url = http://www.tcpa.org.uk/data/files/18991999.pdf |title=History 1899–1999 |publisher=TCPA |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727123822/http://www.tcpa.org.uk/data/files/18991999.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-27 }}.</ref>


Garden City principles greatly influenced the design of colonial and post-colonial capitals during the early part of the 20th century. This is the case for New Delhi (designed as the new capital of ] after World War I), of ] (capital of Australia established in 1913) and of ] (established in 1939, ] from 1948 to 1976).
The concept was adopted again in the UK after World War II, when the ] spurred the development of many new communities based on Howard's egalitarian ideas.


Outside the British empire, the ideas quickly spread as well.
] in ] (architect: ])]]
The idea of the garden city was influential in other countries, including the United States. Examples include ] in ]; ] in ]; ] ]; ]'s ]; ] (parenthetically, the name "Garden City", as it applied to the Stewart-designed city on Long Island, incorporated in 1869, pre-dates that of the garden city movement, which was established some years later near the end of the nineteenth century); ]; ]; ], also in the borough of Queens, New York; ]; ]; ] in ]; the ] neighborhood in ]; ]; ] in Los Angeles; and the ] suburbs of ]<ref>{{cite book |last=Horley|first=Robert|title=The Best Kept Secrets of Parma, "The Garden City" |year=1998|publisher=Robert Horley |isbn=0-9661721-0-8 }}</ref> and ].


== Early examples ==
] is one of three "greenbelt" towns planned beginning in 1935 under the direction of ], head of the ], under authority of the ]. The two other greenbelt towns are ] (near Washington, D.C.), and ] (near ]). The greenbelt towns not only provided work and affordable housing, but also served as a laboratory for experiments in innovative urban planning. Greendale's plan was designed between 1936 and 1937 by a staff headed by Joseph Crane, Elbert Peets, Harry Bentley, and Walter C. Thomas for a site that had formerly consisted of {{convert|3400|acre|km2}} of farmland.
{{Further|List of garden cities}}


=== Africa ===
In Canada, the ] towns of ] (now incorporated into the City of ]) and ] (now incorporated into the City of ]) are, in part, garden cities, as well as ] and the ] suburb of ]. The historic Townsite of ],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://powellrivertownsite.com/ |title={title} |access-date=2018-10-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808040849/http://powellrivertownsite.com/ |archive-date=2018-08-08 |url-status=live }}</ref> and ] district of ], are recognized as ]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10728&pid=0 |title={title} |access-date=2013-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005010715/http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10728&pid=0 |archive-date=2013-10-05 |url-status=live }}</ref> built upon the Garden City Movement. In Montreal, la Cité-jardin du Tricentenaire is a classic form of Garden City located near the ]. All streets are ]s and are linked via pedestrian paths to the community park.
* '''Morocco'''. ] in ] (est. 1929).
* '''South Africa'''. The Garden City movement was able to take root in ], with the development of the suburbs of ] and ] in ] as well as ] near Cape Town.


=== Asia ===
In Japan several towns were inspired by the Garden City movement in the early 1900s, including ],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Oshima |first1=Ken Tadashi |title=Denenchofu: Building the Garden City in Japan |journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians |date=1996 |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=140–151 |doi=10.2307/991116|jstor=991116 }}</ref> Yamato Village,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Suga |first1=Yasoku |title=Branded Heterotopia: Omiya Bonsai Village in Japan from 1925 to the Present |journal=Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes |date=2019 |volume=39 |issue=1 |page=78 |doi=10.1080/14601176.2018.1511178|s2cid=166160488 }}</ref> and ].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Suga |first1=Yasoku |title=Branded Heterotopia: Omiya Bonsai Village in Japan from 1925 to the Present |journal=Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes |date=2019 |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=77–89 |doi=10.1080/14601176.2018.1511178|s2cid=166160488 }}</ref> As with many Garden Cities, despite goals of creating classless societies, each of these examples became increasingly exclusive and populated primarily by wealthy statesmen and celebrities.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Suga |first1=Yasoku |title=Branded Heterotopia: Omiya Bonsai Village in Japan from 1925 to the Present |journal=Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes |date=2019 |volume=39 |issue=1 |page=79 |doi=10.1080/14601176.2018.1511178|s2cid=166160488 }}</ref>
* '''Israel'''. The Garden City movement also influenced the ] urbanist Sir ] in the planning of ], ], in the 1920s, during the ]. Geddes started his Tel Aviv plan in 1925 and submitted the final version in 1927, so all growth of this garden city during the 1930s was merely "based" on the Geddes Plan. Changes were inevitable.<ref>{{Citation |last=Webberley |first=Helen |title=Town-planning in a Brand New City |url=http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/ |year=2008 |access-date=2009-01-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112193352/http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/ |url-status=live |place=Brisbane |publisher=AAANZ Conference |archive-date=2010-01-12}}.</ref> Similarly, in the 1920s, German-born Jewish architect ] designed several neighborhoods under Garden City influence, including ], ], ] and ] in Jerusalem, as well as ], ], ], and Central and Western Carmel in ] as well as the historical center of ]. He referred to these neighborhoods as "Garden Suburbs."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zaidman |first=Miki |last2=Kark |first2=Ruth |date=2016-01-02 |title=Garden cities in the Jewish Yishuv of Palestine: Zionist ideology and practice 1905–1945 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02665433.2015.1039051 |journal=Planning Perspectives |language=en |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=13–14 |doi=10.1080/02665433.2015.1039051 |issn=0266-5433}}</ref>
* '''Japan'''. In Japan, several towns were inspired by the Garden City movement in the early 1900s,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Oshima |first=Ken Tadashi |date=1996-06-01 |title=Denenchōfu: Building the Garden City in Japan |url=https://online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article/55/2/140/58880/Denenchofu-Building-the-Garden-City-in-Japan |journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians |language=en |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=140–151 |doi=10.2307/991116 |jstor=991116 |issn=0037-9808 |access-date=2023-12-18 |archive-date=2024-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525072725/https://online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article-abstract/55/2/140/58880/Denenchofu-Building-the-Garden-City-in-Japan?redirectedFrom=fulltext |url-status=live }}</ref> including ],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Oshima |first1=Ken Tadashi |date=1996 |title=Denenchofu: Building the Garden City in Japan |journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=140–151 |doi=10.2307/991116 |jstor=991116}}</ref> Yamato Village (around ]),<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Suga |first1=Yasoku |date=2019 |title=Branded Heterotopia: Omiya Bonsai Village in Japan from 1925 to the Present |journal=Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes |volume=39 |issue=1 |page=78 |doi=10.1080/14601176.2018.1511178 |s2cid=166160488}}</ref><ref></ref> and ].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Suga |first1=Yasoku |date=2019 |title=Branded Heterotopia: Omiya Bonsai Village in Japan from 1925 to the Present |journal=Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=77–89 |doi=10.1080/14601176.2018.1511178 |s2cid=166160488}}</ref> As with many Garden Cities, despite goals of creating classless societies, each of these examples became increasingly exclusive and populated primarily by wealthy statesmen and celebrities.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Suga |first1=Yasoku |date=2019 |title=Branded Heterotopia: Omiya Bonsai Village in Japan from 1925 to the Present |journal=Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes |volume=39 |issue=1 |page=79 |doi=10.1080/14601176.2018.1511178 |s2cid=166160488}}</ref>


{{further|Talk:Garden city movement#Omiya Bonsai Village|Talk:Garden city movement#Sandbox: In Japan case (used google translate.)}}
] in ] – originally in 1934 planned as a combination of an industrial and garden city]]
In Peru, there is a long tradition in urban design{{efn|Examples being the ancient city of ] ({{convert|20|km2|abbr=on}}, 850 AD) in Trujillo, north of Lima, and the 12th-century Inca city of ]. Peru's modern capital, Lima, was designed in 1535 by Spanish Conquistadors to replace its ancient past as a religious sanctuary with 37 pyramids.}} that has been reintroduced in its architecture more recently. In 1966, the 'Residencial San Felipe' in Lima's district of Jesus Maria was built using the Garden City concept.<ref>{{Citation | url = https://www.panoramio.com/photo/37676518 | publisher = Panoramio | format = photogram | title = 37676518 | access-date = 2017-12-02 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170625175352/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/37676518 | archive-date = 2017-06-25 | url-status = live }}.</ref>


* '''Vietnam'''. The garden city model was also applied to many colonial hill stations, such as ] in ] (est. 1907).
In ], several neighbourhoods were planned as Garden Cities, such as ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ] (Garden City in Portuguese). ], capital of ] state, and ] are also examples of Garden Cities.


=== Europe ===
In Argentina, an example is '']'', declared by the influential Argentinian professor of engineering, Carlos María della Paolera, founder of "Día Mundial del Urbanismo" (]), as the first Garden City in South America.
] in ] (architect: ])]]
], the garden city of ]<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516214851/https://www.kaunisgrani.fi/2020/06/puutarhakaupungin-kesassa-tuoksuvat-kukat-ja-maistuu-jaatelo/ |date=2021-05-16 }} (in Finnish)</ref>]]
* '''Belgium'''. In Belgium the Garden City movement started early,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smets |first=Marcel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vzT7ORDLuCcC&dq=cites+jardins&pg=PA13 |title=L'avènement de la cité-jardin en Belgique: histoire de l'habitat social en Belgique de 1830 à 1930 |date=1977 |publisher=Editions Mardaga |isbn=978-2-87009-082-4 |language=fr |access-date=2023-12-26 |archive-date=2024-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525072719/https://books.google.com/books?id=vzT7ORDLuCcC&dq=cites+jardins&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q=cites%20jardins&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> but took roots in the 1910s, directly connected to industrial development, especially that of the ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Belgische steenkoolmijnen |url=http://www.belgischesteenkoolmijnen.be/ |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=Belgische steenkoolmijnen |language=nl-NL |archive-date=2023-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231208120049/https://www.belgischesteenkoolmijnen.be/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Early examples are Tuinwijk ] (1908), Tuinwijk van ] (1910), and ]-Tuinwijk (1911). After the First World War, there was a huge need for new housing, and the principles were widely applied. Social housing associations were created, often linked to political movements. In Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent new extensions of the city were built. The houses in these areas are still very popular among residents and classified as historical heritage.
* '''Czechia'''. In the former ], all industrial cities founded or reconstructed by the ] company (], ], ]) were influenced by the conception of the Garden City.
* '''Finland'''. ] is an early example, which was founded by a corporation in 1906, AB Grankulla.
* '''France'''. The Garden City movement was very influential in France. The concept of garden city (''cité jardin''), was closely related to the concept of the 'workers city' (''cité ouvrière'').<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Butler |first1=Rémy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7u1XDwAAQBAJ&dq=cites+jardins+france&pg=PT3 |title=Le Logement social en France (1815-1981): De la cité ouvrière au grand ensemble |last2=Noisette |first2=Patrice |date=1983-01-01 |publisher=La Découverte (réédition numérique FeniXX) |isbn=978-2-348-01090-3 |language=fr |access-date=2023-12-26 |archive-date=2024-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525072720/https://books.google.com/books?id=7u1XDwAAQBAJ&dq=cites+jardins+france&pg=PT3 |url-status=live }}</ref> All over the country settlements were established accordingly.
* '''Germany'''. Along with the UK, Germany was at the forefront of the Garden Cities movement, starting in the late 19th century, part of a broader discourse on social renewal.<ref>{{Citation |last= |first= |title=Gartenstadt |date=2013 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8274-3066-3_25 |work=50 Schlüsselideen Architektur |pages=96–99 |editor-last=Wilkinson |editor-first=Philip |access-date=2023-12-18 |place=Heidelberg |publisher=Spektrum Akademischer Verlag |language=de |doi=10.1007/978-3-8274-3066-3_25 |isbn=978-3-8274-3066-3 |archive-date=2024-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525072721/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-8274-3066-3_25 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |title=Gartenstadt – Geschichte und Zukunftsfähigkeit einer Idee |publisher=Thelem Verlag |year=2012 |isbn=978-3-942411-33-2 |editor-last=Lindner |editor-first=Ralph |editor2=Thomas Will |publication-place=Dresden |language=de}}</ref> Specific projects were typically the results of private initiatives.
* '''Hungary'''. Originally built in ] (now part of ]) in 1908, ] is a prime example of the garden city concept
* '''Poland'''. Located on the south-west outskirts of Warsaw, both Komorów (]), as well, as ], ] and ] are based on Howard's garden-city concept.
* '''Netherlands'''. The concept of the Garden City was widely applied in different parts of the country, mainly as 'garden villages', such as ] in Rotterdam, Tuindorp 't Lansink in ], ] in Amsterdam, and ] in Amsterdam. In most cases, private industrial companies took the initiative. The development continued on a bigger scale after the Second World War, now initiated and controlled by municipalities, with examples such as the ] (a part of Amsterdam).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Western Garden Cities |url=https://vaneesterenmuseum.nl/en/garden-cities/western-city-gardens/ |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=Van Eesteren Museum |language=en-GB |archive-date=2023-12-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231217001401/https://vaneesterenmuseum.nl/en/garden-cities/western-city-gardens/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* '''United Kingdom''' – Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City (see History above)
* '''Ukraine''' – Nova Kakhovka


=== North America ===
In Australia, the Dacey Garden Suburb (now ]) was established in 1912 based on Garden City principles.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/glorious-days/social-laboratory/daceyville |title=Daceyville - National Museum of Australia |access-date=2021-11-08}}</ref> The suburb of ] in ] was also designed according to Garden City principles.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mitchamcouncil.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1247 |title=City of Mitcham - History Pages |access-date=2009-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012080853/http://www.mitchamcouncil.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1247 |archive-date=2009-10-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> So too the town of ] which is now a suburb of ] in ] and the suburb of Lalor, also in Melbourne. The Peter Lalor Estate in Lalor takes its name from a leader of the Eureka Stockade and remains today in its original form. However it is under threat from developers and Whittlesea Council.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/places/heritage/11984 | title = Victorian Heritage Database | contribution = HV McKay memorial gardens | place = Vic, AU | publisher = The Government | access-date = 2009-08-28 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091204153041/http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/places/heritage/11984 | archive-date = 2009-12-04 | url-status = live }}.</ref><ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.brimbank.vic.gov.au/Files/HO74SelwynPark.pdf |publisher=Brimbank City Council |title=Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study |contribution=2000 Study Site N 068—Albion—HO Selwyn Park |place=Vic, AU |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022111919/http://www.brimbank.vic.gov.au/Files/HO74SelwynPark.pdf |archive-date=2009-10-22 }}.</ref> Lalor:Peter Lalor Home Building Cooperative 1946-2012 Scollay, Moira. Pre-dating these was the garden suburb of Haberfield in 1901 by Richard Stanton, organised on a vertical integrated model from land subdivision, mortgage financing, house and interior designs and site landscaping.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/haberfield|title=Haberfield|author=Sue Jackson-Stepowski|year=2008|access-date=2016-04-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120539/http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/haberfield|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=live}}</ref>
* '''Canada'''. ], ], initiated in 1905, is one of the first Garden cities outside of England. The historic Townsite of ],<ref>{{Cite web |title={title} |url=http://powellrivertownsite.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808040849/http://powellrivertownsite.com/ |archive-date=2018-08-08 |access-date=2018-10-25}}</ref> and ] district of ], are recognized as ]<ref>{{Cite web |title={title} |url=http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10728&pid=0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005010715/http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10728&pid=0 |archive-date=2013-10-05 |access-date=2013-02-03}}</ref> built upon the Garden City Movement. The ] towns of ] (now incorporated into the City of ]) and ] (now incorporated into the City of ]) are, in part, garden cities, as well as ] and the ] suburb of ]. In Montreal, la Cité-jardin du Tricentenaire is a classic form of Garden City located near the ]. All streets are ]s and are linked via pedestrian paths to the community park.
* '''United States'''. Examples include ] in ]; ] in ]; ] ]; ]'s ]; ] (parenthetically, the name "Garden City", as it applied to the Stewart-designed city on Long Island, incorporated in 1869, pre-dates that of the garden city movement, which was established some years later near the end of the nineteenth century); ]; ]; ], in the borough of Queens, New York; ]; ]; ] in ]; the ] neighborhood in ]; ]; ] in Los Angeles; ] near ], and the ] suburbs of ]<ref>{{cite book |last=Horley|first=Robert|title=The Best Kept Secrets of Parma, "The Garden City" |year=1998|publisher=Robert Horley |isbn=0-9661721-0-8 }}</ref> and ]. ] is one of three "greenbelt" towns planned beginning in 1935 under the direction of ], head of the ], under authority of the ]. The two other greenbelt towns are ] (near Washington, D.C.), and ] (near ]). The greenbelt towns not only provided work and affordable housing, but also served as a laboratory for experiments in innovative urban planning. Greendale's plan was designed between 1936 and 1937 by a staff headed by Joseph Crane, Elbert Peets, Harry Bentley, and Walter C. Thomas for a site that had formerly consisted of {{convert|3400|acre|km2}} of farmland.


=== Oceania ===
Garden city ideals were employed in the original town planning of ], New Zealand. Prior to the earthquakes of ] and ], the city infrastructure and homes were well integrated into green spaces. The rebuild blueprint rethought the garden city concept and how it would best suit the city. Greenbelts and urban greenspaces have been redesigned to incorporate more living spaces.
* '''Australia'''. The Dacey Garden Suburb (now ]) was established in 1912 based on Garden City principles.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daceyville - National Museum of Australia |url=https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/glorious-days/social-laboratory/daceyville |access-date=2021-11-08 |archive-date=2021-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108045550/https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/glorious-days/social-laboratory/daceyville |url-status=live }}</ref> The suburb of ] in ] was also designed according to Garden City principles.<ref>{{Cite web |title=City of Mitcham - History Pages |url=http://www.mitchamcouncil.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1247 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012080853/http://www.mitchamcouncil.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1247 |archive-date=2009-10-12 |access-date=2009-09-08}}</ref> So too the town of ] which is now a suburb of ] in ] and the suburb of Lalor, also in Melbourne. The Peter Lalor Estate in Lalor takes its name from a leader of the Eureka Stockade and remains today in its original form. However it is under threat from developers and Whittlesea Council.<ref>{{Citation |title=Victorian Heritage Database |url=http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/places/heritage/11984 |access-date=2009-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091204153041/http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/places/heritage/11984 |url-status=live |contribution=HV McKay memorial gardens |place=Vic, AU |publisher=The Government |archive-date=2009-12-04}}.</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study |url=http://www.brimbank.vic.gov.au/Files/HO74SelwynPark.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022111919/http://www.brimbank.vic.gov.au/Files/HO74SelwynPark.pdf |url-status=dead |contribution=2000 Study Site N 068—Albion—HO Selwyn Park |place=Vic, AU |publisher=Brimbank City Council |archive-date=2009-10-22}}.</ref> Lalor:Peter Lalor Home Building Cooperative 1946-2012 Scollay, Moira. Pre-dating these was the garden suburb of Haberfield in 1901 by Richard Stanton, organised on a vertical integrated model from land subdivision, mortgage financing, house and interior designs and site landscaping.<ref>{{cite web |author=Sue Jackson-Stepowski |year=2008 |title=Haberfield |url=http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/haberfield |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120539/http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/haberfield |archive-date=2016-03-04 |access-date=2016-04-26}}</ref>
* '''New Zealand.''' Garden city ideals were employed in the original town planning of ]. Prior to the earthquakes of ] and ], the city infrastructure and homes were well integrated into green spaces. The rebuild blueprint rethought the garden city concept and how it would best suit the city. Greenbelts and urban greenspaces have been redesigned to incorporate more living spaces.


=== South America ===
Garden City principles greatly influenced the design of colonial and post-colonial capitals during the early part of the 20th century. This is the case for New Delhi (designed as the new capital of ] after World War I), of ] (capital of Australia established in 1913) and of ] (established in 1939, ] from 1948 to 1976). The garden city model was also applied to many colonial hill stations, such as ] in ] (est. 1907) and ] in ] (est. 1929).
* '''Argentina'''. An example is '']'', declared by the influential Argentinian professor of engineering, Carlos María della Paolera, founder of "Día Mundial del Urbanismo" (]), as the first Garden City in South America.

* '''Brazil'''. In ], several neighbourhoods were planned as Garden Cities, such as ], {{ill|Jardim Europa (bairro de São Paulo)|pt}}, {{ill|Alto da Lapa|pt}}, ], ], ], ], and {{ill|Cidade Jardim (bairro de São Paulo)|pt}} (Garden City in Portuguese). ], capital of ] state, and ] are also examples of Garden Cities.
In ]'s capital city ] the new plan, following the Principles of Intelligent Urbanism, is an organic response to the fragile ecology. Using sustainable concepts, it is a contemporary response to the garden city concept.
* '''Peru'''. In Peru, there is a long tradition in urban design{{efn|Examples being the ancient city of ] ({{convert|20|km2|abbr=on}}, 850 AD) in Trujillo, north of Lima, and the 12th-century Inca city of ]. Peru's modern capital, Lima, was designed in 1535 by Spanish Conquistadors to replace its ancient past as a religious sanctuary with 37 pyramids.}} that has been reintroduced in its architecture more recently. In 1966, the ] in Lima's district of Jesus Maria was built using the Garden City concept.<ref>{{Citation |title=37676518 |url=https://www.panoramio.com/photo/37676518 |access-date=2017-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625175352/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/37676518 |url-status=live |publisher=Panoramio |format=photogram |archive-date=2017-06-25}}.</ref>

The Garden City movement also influenced the ] urbanist Sir ] in the planning of ], ], in the 1920s, during the ]. Geddes started his Tel Aviv plan in 1925 and submitted the final version in 1927, so all growth of this garden city during the 1930s was merely "based" on the Geddes Plan. Changes were inevitable.<ref>{{Citation | last = Webberley | first = Helen | title = Town-planning in a Brand New City | publisher = AAANZ Conference | place = Brisbane | year = 2008 | url = http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/ | access-date = 2009-01-25 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100112193352/http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/ | archive-date = 2010-01-12 | url-status = live }}.</ref>

The Garden City movement was even able to take root in ], with the development of the suburbs of ] and ] in ] as well as ] near Cape Town.

In Italy, the INA-Casa plan – a national public housing plan from the 1950s and '60s – designed several suburbs according to Garden City principles: examples are found in many cities and towns of the country, such as the ] suburb in ], ] in ], ] in ], ] in ] (part of the ]), etc.

In Belgium the Garden City movement took roots in the 1920s. After the First World War, there was a huge need for new housing. Social housing associations were created, often linked to political movements. In Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent new extensions of the city were built. These houses are still very popular among residents and classified as historical heritage. In the former ], all industrial cities founded or reconstructed by the ] company (], ], ]) were at least influenced by the conception of the Garden City.

The ] in ], took some influence from Howard's Garden City concept while the park was still under construction.<ref>{{Cite thesis |url=http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2346/ |title=Manifestations of Ebenezer Howard in Disneyland |type=MA thesis |publisher=University of South Florida |date=June 2007 |access-date=2015-05-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518103721/http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2346/ |archive-date=2015-05-18 |url-status=live |last1=Rowland |first1=Michelle }}</ref>

Singapore, a tropical city has over time incorporated various facets of the Garden City concept in its town plans to try and make the country a unique City in a Garden.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mnd.gov.sg/MNDAPPImages/About%20Us/From%20Garden%20City%20to%20City%20in%20a%20Garden.pdf |title=City in a Garden |access-date=2017-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914115135/http://www.mnd.gov.sg/MNDAPPImages/About%20Us/From%20Garden%20City%20to%20City%20in%20a%20Garden.pdf |archive-date=2012-09-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the 1970s, the country started including concepts in its town plans to ensure that building codes and land use plans made adequate provisions for greenery and nature to become part of community development, thereby providing a great living environment. In 1996, the National Parks Board was given the mandate to spearhead the development and maintenance of greenery and bring the island's green spaces and parks to the community.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nparks.gov.sg/about-us/mission-and-history |title=National Parks Board |access-date=2017-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226150152/https://www.nparks.gov.sg/about-us/mission-and-history |archive-date=2017-02-26 |url-status=live }}</ref>


==Criticisms== ==Criticisms==
While garden cities were praised for being an alternative to overcrowded and industrial cities, along with greater sustainability, garden cities were often criticized for damaging the economy, being destructive of the beauty of nature, and being inconvenient. According to A. Trystan Edwards, garden cities engender desecration of the countryside by trying to recreate countryside suburbs that could spread on their own; however, this was not a possible feat due to the limited space that they had (except at their outermost edges).<ref>{{cite journal |title=A Further Criticism of the Garden City Movement While garden cities were praised for being an alternative to overcrowded and industrial cities, along with greater sustainability, garden cities were often criticized for damaging the economy, being destructive of the beauty of nature, and being inconvenient. According to A. Trystan Edwards, garden cities engender desecration of the countryside by trying to recreate countryside suburbs that could spread on their own; however, this was not a possible feat due to the limited space that they had (except at their outermost edges).<ref>{{cite journal
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==Legacy== ==Legacy==
The concept of the Garden City was adopted again in the UK after World War II, when the ] spurred the development of many new communities based on Howard's egalitarian ideas. It also affected town planning in other countries, such as Italy; the INA-Casa plan – a national public housing plan from the 1950s and '60s – designed several suburbs according to Garden City principles: examples are found in many cities and towns of the country, such as the ] suburb in ], ] in ], ] in ], ] in ] (part of the ]), etc.

More recent application of the principles can be found in different contexts across the world. In ]'s capital city ], for example, the new plan, following the Principles of Intelligent Urbanism, is an organic response to the fragile ecology. Using sustainable concepts, it is a contemporary response to the garden city concept. The ] in ], took some influence from Howard's Garden City concept while the park was still under construction.<ref>{{Cite thesis |url=http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2346/ |title=Manifestations of Ebenezer Howard in Disneyland |type=MA thesis |publisher=University of South Florida |date=June 2007 |access-date=2015-05-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518103721/http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2346/ |archive-date=2015-05-18 |url-status=live |last1=Rowland |first1=Michelle}}</ref> Singapore, a tropical city, has over time incorporated various facets of the Garden City concept in its town plans to try and make the country a unique City in a Garden.<ref>{{Cite web |title=City in a Garden |url=http://www.mnd.gov.sg/MNDAPPImages/About%20Us/From%20Garden%20City%20to%20City%20in%20a%20Garden.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914115135/http://www.mnd.gov.sg/MNDAPPImages/About%20Us/From%20Garden%20City%20to%20City%20in%20a%20Garden.pdf |archive-date=2012-09-14 |access-date=2017-02-19}}</ref> In the 1970s, the country started including concepts in its town plans to ensure that building codes and land use plans made adequate provisions for greenery and nature to become part of community development, thereby providing a great living environment. In 1996, the National Parks Board was given the mandate to spearhead the development and maintenance of greenery and bring the island's green spaces and parks to the community.<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Parks Board |url=https://www.nparks.gov.sg/about-us/mission-and-history |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226150152/https://www.nparks.gov.sg/about-us/mission-and-history |archive-date=2017-02-26 |access-date=2017-02-19}}</ref>

Contemporary town-planning charters like '']'' and '']'' originated with this movement. Today there are many garden cities in the world, but most of them have devolved to ]s, which completely differ from what Howard aimed to create.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} Contemporary town-planning charters like '']'' and '']'' originated with this movement. Today there are many garden cities in the world, but most of them have devolved to ]s, which completely differ from what Howard aimed to create.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}}


In 2007, the ] marked its 108th anniversary by calling for Garden City and Garden Suburb principles to be applied to the present ] and ] in the United Kingdom.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812190922/http://www.tcpa.org.uk/pages/garden-cities.html |date=2013-08-12 }} at Town and Country Planning Association</ref> The campaign continued in 2013 with the publication in March of that year of "Creating Garden Cities and Suburbs Today - a guide for councils".<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130706101153/http://www.tcpa.org.uk/pages/creating-garden-cities-and-suburbs-today-a-guide-for-councils.html |date=2013-07-06 }}</ref> Also in 2013, Lord ] announced that he would award the ] for the best ideas on how to create a new garden city.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} In 2007, the ] marked its 108th anniversary by calling for Garden City and Garden Suburb principles to be applied to the present ] and ] in the United Kingdom.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812190922/http://www.tcpa.org.uk/pages/garden-cities.html |date=2013-08-12 }} at Town and Country Planning Association</ref> The campaign continued in 2013 with the publication in March of that year of "Creating Garden Cities and Suburbs Today - a guide for councils".<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130706101153/http://www.tcpa.org.uk/pages/creating-garden-cities-and-suburbs-today-a-guide-for-councils.html |date=2013-07-06 }}</ref> Also in 2013, Lord ] announced that he would award the ] for the best ideas on how to create a new garden city.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}}


In 2014 The Letchworth Declaration<ref></ref> was published which called for a body to accredit future garden cities in the UK. The declaration has a strong focus on the visible (architecture and layout) and the invisible (social, ownership and governance) architecture of a settlement. One result was the creation of the New Garden Cities Alliance as a ]. Its aim is to be complementary to groups like the ] and it has adopted TCPA garden city principles as well as those from other groups, including those from Cabannes and Ross's booklet ''21st Century Garden Cities of {{sic|hide=y|To-morrow}}''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cabannes |first1=Yves |last2=Ross |first2=Philip |title=21st Century Garden Cities of To-morrow: A manifesto |date=2015-02-13 |publisher=] |isbn=978-1-291-47827-3}}{{self-published source|date=September 2021}}</ref>{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}} In 2014 The Letchworth Declaration<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://gardencities.info/the-letchworth-declaration/The |title=Letchworth Declaration |access-date=2015-10-10 |archive-date=2024-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525072720/https://gardencities.info/the-letchworth-declaration/ |url-status=live }}</ref> was published which called for a body to accredit future garden cities in the UK. The declaration has a strong focus on the visible (architecture and layout) and the invisible (social, ownership and governance) architecture of a settlement. One result was the creation of the New Garden Cities Alliance as a ]. Its aim is to be complementary to groups like the ] and it has adopted TCPA garden city principles as well as those from other groups, including those from Cabannes and Ross's booklet ''21st Century Garden Cities of {{sic|hide=y|To-morrow}}''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cabannes |first1=Yves |last2=Ross |first2=Philip |title=21st Century Garden Cities of To-morrow: A manifesto |date=2015-02-13 |publisher=] |isbn=978-1-291-47827-3}}{{self-published source|date=September 2021}}</ref>{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}}


===New garden cities and towns=== ===New garden cities and towns===
British Chancellor of the Exchequer ] announced plans for a new garden city to be built at ], ], in early 2014, with a second also planned as an expansion of ], ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ebbsfleet: Britain's first new garden city|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/10701163/Ebbsfleet-Britains-first-new-garden-city.html|website=The Telegraph|access-date=1 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920044610/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/10701163/Ebbsfleet-Britains-first-new-garden-city.html|archive-date=2016-09-20|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Bicester chosen as new garden city with 13,000 homes|work=BBC News|date=2 December 2014|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30287273|access-date=1 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160717221624/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30287273|archive-date=2016-07-17|url-status=live}}</ref> The United Kingdom government announced further plans for garden towns in 2015, supporting both the development of new communities in North ] and support for sustainable and environmentally-friendly town development in ], Oxfordshire.<ref>{{cite web|title=New garden towns to create thousands of new homes|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-garden-towns-to-create-thousands-of-new-homes|website=Gov.uk|publisher=United Kingdom Government|access-date=1 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917174611/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-garden-towns-to-create-thousands-of-new-homes|archive-date=2016-09-17|url-status=live}}</ref> A "] Garden City" was announced in 2016 with plans to build 45,000 new homes in the ] on brownfield sites.<ref>{{cite news|title=Black Country Garden City to get 45,000 new homes|work=BBC News|date=13 March 2016|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-35787001|access-date=1 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001114337/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-35787001|archive-date=2016-10-01|url-status=live}}</ref> British Chancellor of the Exchequer ] announced plans for a new garden city to be built at ], ], in early 2014, with a second also planned as an expansion of ], ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ebbsfleet: Britain's first new garden city|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/10701163/Ebbsfleet-Britains-first-new-garden-city.html|website=The Telegraph|access-date=1 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920044610/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/10701163/Ebbsfleet-Britains-first-new-garden-city.html|archive-date=2016-09-20|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Bicester chosen as new garden city with 13,000 homes|work=BBC News|date=2 December 2014|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30287273|access-date=1 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160717221624/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30287273|archive-date=2016-07-17|url-status=live}}</ref> The United Kingdom government announced further plans for garden towns in 2015, supporting both the development of new communities in North ] and support for sustainable and environmentally-friendly town development in ], Oxfordshire.<ref>{{cite web|title=New garden towns to create thousands of new homes|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-garden-towns-to-create-thousands-of-new-homes|website=Gov.uk|publisher=United Kingdom Government|access-date=1 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917174611/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-garden-towns-to-create-thousands-of-new-homes|archive-date=2016-09-17|url-status=live}}</ref> A "] Garden City" was announced in 2016 with plans to build 45,000 new homes in the ] on brownfield sites.<ref>{{cite news|title=Black Country Garden City to get 45,000 new homes|work=BBC News|date=13 March 2016|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-35787001|access-date=1 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001114337/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-35787001|archive-date=2016-10-01|url-status=live}}</ref>


On 2 January 2017, plans for new garden villages, each with between 1,500 and 10,000 homes, and garden towns each with more than 10,000 houses were announced by the government.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/02/new-garden-towns-villages-provide-200000-homes-ease-housing/ |title={title} |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=2 January 2017 |access-date=2018-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116151645/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/02/new-garden-towns-villages-provide-200000-homes-ease-housing/ |archive-date=2018-01-16 |url-status=live |last1=McCann |first1=Kate }}</ref> These smaller projects have been proposed due to opposition of "]" in the garden city projects, as well as such quick expansion to small communities. The first wave of villages to be approved by ministers are to be located in: On 2 January 2017, plans for new garden villages, each with between 1,500 and 10,000 homes, and garden towns each with more than 10,000 houses were announced by the government.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/02/new-garden-towns-villages-provide-200000-homes-ease-housing/ |title=New garden towns and villages to provide 200,000 homes to ease housing shortage |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=2 January 2017 |access-date=2018-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116151645/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/02/new-garden-towns-villages-provide-200000-homes-ease-housing/ |archive-date=2018-01-16 |url-status=live |last1=McCann |first1=Kate }}</ref> These smaller projects have been proposed due to opposition of "]" in the garden city projects, as well as such quick expansion to small communities. The first wave of villages to be approved by ministers are to be located in:


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==Garden suburbs== ==Garden suburbs==
The concept of garden cities is to produce relatively economically independent cities with short commute times and the preservation of the countryside. Garden suburbs arguably do the opposite. Garden suburbs are built on the outskirts of large cities with no sections of industry. They are therefore dependent on reliable transport allowing workers to commute into the city.{{Sfn | Hall | Ward | 1998 | p = 41}} ], one of Howard's disciples, explained the difference as "The Garden City, as Howard defined it, is not a suburb but the antithesis of a suburb: not a rural retreat, but a more integrated foundation for an effective urban life."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stern|first1=Robert A.M.|last2=Fishman|first2=David|last3=Tilove|first3=Jacob|title=Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City|date=2013|publisher=The Monacelli Press|isbn=978-1580933261|pages=17–19}}</ref> The concept of garden cities is to produce relatively economically independent cities with short commute times and the preservation of the countryside. Garden suburbs arguably do the opposite. Garden suburbs are built on the outskirts of large cities with no sections of industry. They are therefore dependent on reliable transport allowing workers to commute into the city.{{Sfn | Hall | Ward | 1998 | p = 41}} ], one of Howard's disciples, explained the difference as "The Garden City, as Howard defined it, is not a suburb but the antithesis of a suburb: not a rural retreat, but a more integrated foundation for an effective urban life."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stern|first1=Robert A.M.|last2=Fishman|first2=David|last3=Tilove|first3=Jacob|title=Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City|date=2013|publisher=The Monacelli Press|isbn=978-1580933261|pages=17–19|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bdvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA17|access-date=2023-12-26|archive-date=2024-05-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525072720/https://books.google.com/books?id=8bdvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA17#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>


The planned garden suburb emerged in the late 19th century as a by-product of new types of transportation were embraced by a newly prosperous merchant class. The first garden villages were built by English estate owners, who wanted to relocate or rebuild villages on their lands. It was in these cases that architects first began designing small houses. Early examples include ] and ]. Major innovations that defined early garden suburbs and subsequent suburban town planning include linking villa-like homes with landscaped public spaces and roads.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stern|first1=Robert A.M.|last2=Fishman|first2=David|last3=Tilove|first3=Jacob|title=Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City|date=2013|publisher=The Monacelli Press|isbn=978-1580933261}}</ref> The planned garden suburb emerged in the late 19th century as a by-product of new types of transportation were embraced by a newly prosperous merchant class. The first garden villages were built by English estate owners, who wanted to relocate or rebuild villages on their lands. It was in these cases that architects first began designing small houses. Early examples include ] and ]. Major innovations that defined early garden suburbs and subsequent suburban town planning include linking villa-like homes with landscaped public spaces and roads.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stern|first1=Robert A.M.|last2=Fishman|first2=David|last3=Tilove|first3=Jacob|title=Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City|date=2013|publisher=The Monacelli Press|isbn=978-1580933261}}</ref>


Despite the emergence of the garden suburb in England, the typology flowered in the second half of the 19th century in United States. There were generally two garden suburb typologies, the garden village and the garden enclave. The garden villages are spatially independent of the city but remain connected to the city by railroads, streetcars, and later automobiles. The villages often included shops and civic buildings. In contrast, garden enclaves are typically strictly residential and emphasize natural and private space, instead of public and community space. The urban form of the enclaves was often coordinated through the use of early land use controls typical of modern zoning, including controlled setbacks, landscaping, and materials.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stern|first1=Robert A.M.|last2=Fishman|first2=David|last3=Tilove|first3=Jacob|title=Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City|date=2013|publisher=The Monacelli Press|isbn=978-1580933261|page=48}}</ref> Despite the emergence of the garden suburb in England, the typology flowered in the second half of the 19th century in United States. There were generally two garden suburb typologies, the garden village and the garden enclave. The garden villages are spatially independent of the city but remain connected to the city by railroads, streetcars, and later automobiles. The villages often included shops and civic buildings. In contrast, garden enclaves are typically strictly residential and emphasize natural and private space, instead of public and community space. The urban form of the enclaves was often coordinated through the use of early land use controls typical of modern zoning, including controlled setbacks, landscaping, and materials.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stern|first1=Robert A.M.|last2=Fishman|first2=David|last3=Tilove|first3=Jacob|title=Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City|date=2013|publisher=The Monacelli Press|isbn=978-1580933261|page=48|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bdvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48|access-date=2023-12-26|archive-date=2024-05-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525072720/https://books.google.com/books?id=8bdvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>


Garden suburbs were not part of Howard's plan<ref>{{Citation | last = Hall | first = Peter | year = 1996 | title = Cities of Tomorrow | place = Oxford | publisher = BlackWell | chapter = 4}}.</ref> and were actually a hindrance to garden city planning—they were in fact almost the antithesis of Howard's plan, what he tried to prevent. The suburbanisation of London was an increasing problem which Howard attempted to solve with his garden city model, which attempted to end urban sprawl by the sheer inhibition of land speculation due to the land being held in trust, and the inclusion of agricultural areas on the city outskirts.<ref>{{Citation | title = Design on the Land}}.</ref> Garden suburbs were not part of Howard's plan<ref>{{Citation | last = Hall | first = Peter | year = 1996 | title = Cities of Tomorrow | place = Oxford | publisher = BlackWell | chapter = 4}}.</ref> and were actually a hindrance to garden city planning—they were in fact almost the antithesis of Howard's plan, what he tried to prevent. The suburbanisation of London was an increasing problem which Howard attempted to solve with his garden city model, which attempted to end urban sprawl by the sheer inhibition of land speculation due to the land being held in trust, and the inclusion of agricultural areas on the city outskirts.<ref>{{Citation | title = Design on the Land}}.</ref>


], one of Howard's early collaborators on the ] project in 1907, became very influential in formalizing the garden city principles in the design of suburbs through his work ''Town Planning in Practice: An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs'' (1909).{{Sfn | Hall | 2002 | pp = 110–12}} The book strongly influenced the ], which provided municipalities the power to develop urban plans for new suburban communities.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stern|first1=Robert A.M.|last2=Fishman|first2=David|last3=Tilove|first3=Jacob|title=Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City|date=2013|publisher=The Monacelli Press|isbn=978-1580933261|page=214}}</ref> ], one of Howard's early collaborators on the ] project in 1907, became very influential in formalizing the garden city principles in the design of suburbs through his work ''Town Planning in Practice: An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs'' (1909).{{Sfn | Hall | 2002 | pp = 110–12}} The book strongly influenced the ], which provided municipalities the power to develop urban plans for new suburban communities.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stern|first1=Robert A.M.|last2=Fishman|first2=David|last3=Tilove|first3=Jacob|title=Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City|date=2013|publisher=The Monacelli Press|isbn=978-1580933261|page=214|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bdvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA214|access-date=2023-12-26|archive-date=2024-05-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525073223/https://books.google.com/books?id=8bdvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA214#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>


Smaller developments were also inspired by the garden city philosophy and were modified to allow for residential "garden suburbs" without the commercial and industrial components of the garden city.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/1593132 |title=Suburban Ideals on England's Interwar Council Estates |first=Matthew |last=Hollow |year=2011 |access-date=2012-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130811103753/http://www.academia.edu/1593132/Suburban_Ideals_on_Englands_Interwar_Council_Estates |archive-date=2013-08-11 |url-status=live }}</ref> They were built on the outskirts of cities, in rural settings. Some notable examples being, in London, ], the ] in ], ], ]'s Pinnerwood conversation area and the 'Exhibition Estate' in ] and, in ], ] Garden Suburb. The Gidea Park estate in particular was built during two main periods of activity, 1911 and 1934. Both resulted in some good examples of domestic architecture, by such architects as ] and ]. Thanks to such strongly conservative local residents' associations as the Civic Society, both Hampstead and Gidea Park retain much of their original character. Smaller developments were also inspired by the garden city philosophy and were modified to allow for residential "garden suburbs" without the commercial and industrial components of the garden city.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/1593132 |title=Suburban Ideals on England's Interwar Council Estates |first=Matthew |last=Hollow |year=2011 |access-date=2012-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130811103753/http://www.academia.edu/1593132/Suburban_Ideals_on_Englands_Interwar_Council_Estates |archive-date=2013-08-11 |url-status=live }}</ref> They were built on the outskirts of cities, in rural settings. Some notable examples being, in London, ], the ] in ], ], ]'s Pinnerwood conversation area and the ] in ] and, in ], ] Garden Suburb. The Gidea Park estate in particular was built during two main periods of activity, 1911 and 1934. Both resulted in some good examples of domestic architecture, by such architects as ] and ]. Thanks to such strongly conservative local residents' associations as the Civic Society, both Hampstead and Gidea Park retain much of their original character.


] in Birmingham, UK, is an important residential development which was associated with the growth of 'Cadbury's Factory in a Garden'. Here garden city principles are a fundamental part of the Trust's activity. There are tight restrictions applying to the properties here such as no stonewall cladding.{{cn|date=September 2021}} ] in Birmingham, UK, is an important residential development which was associated with the growth of 'Cadbury's Factory in a Garden'. Here garden city principles are a fundamental part of the Trust's activity. There are tight restrictions applying to the properties here such as no stonewall cladding.{{cn|date=September 2021}}
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Howard's influence reached as far as ], where architect ] was influenced by the garden city concept in the design of two of the most iconic inner-city subdivisions, ] (1926) and ] (1928-9):<ref name=sanchez>{{citation|url=http://148.206.107.15/biblioteca_digital/estadistica.php?id_host=6&tipo=ARTICULO&id=7769&archivo=11-546-7769mik.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200323/http://148.206.107.15/biblioteca_digital/estadistica.php?id_host=6&tipo=ARTICULO&id=7769&archivo=11-546-7769mik.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-10-29|title=El trazo de Las Lomas y de la Hipódromo Condesa|language=es|author=Manuel Sánchez de Carmona|display-authors=etal}}</ref> Howard's influence reached as far as ], where architect ] was influenced by the garden city concept in the design of two of the most iconic inner-city subdivisions, ] (1926) and ] (1928-9):<ref name=sanchez>{{citation|url=http://148.206.107.15/biblioteca_digital/estadistica.php?id_host=6&tipo=ARTICULO&id=7769&archivo=11-546-7769mik.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200323/http://148.206.107.15/biblioteca_digital/estadistica.php?id_host=6&tipo=ARTICULO&id=7769&archivo=11-546-7769mik.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-10-29|title=El trazo de Las Lomas y de la Hipódromo Condesa|language=es|author=Manuel Sánchez de Carmona|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
*In 1926, Colonia Hipódromo<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uaeh.edu.mx/docencia/P_Lectura/icbi/asignatura/HistoriaMex2_7.pdf |title="Histoira de la Arquitectura Mexicana", Gabriela Piña Olivares, Autonomous University of Hidalgo |access-date=2013-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029183752/http://www.uaeh.edu.mx/docencia/P_Lectura/icbi/asignatura/HistoriaMex2_7.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-29 |url-status=live }}</ref> (a.k.a. Hipódromo de la Condesa), in what is now known as the ] area, including its iconic parks ] and ] *In 1926, Colonia Hipódromo<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uaeh.edu.mx/docencia/P_Lectura/icbi/asignatura/HistoriaMex2_7.pdf |title="Histoira de la Arquitectura Mexicana", Gabriela Piña Olivares, Autonomous University of Hidalgo |access-date=2013-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029183752/http://www.uaeh.edu.mx/docencia/P_Lectura/icbi/asignatura/HistoriaMex2_7.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-29 |url-status=live }}</ref> (a.k.a. Hipódromo de la Condesa), in what is now known as the ] area, including its iconic parks ] and ]
*In 1928–29, ] *In 1928–29, ]


The subdivisions were based on the principles of the garden city as promoted by ], including ample parks and other open spaces, park islands in the middle of "grand avenues", such as Avenida Amsterdam in colonia Hipódromo.<ref name=sanchez/> The subdivisions were based on the principles of the garden city as promoted by ], including ample ], park islands in the middle of "grand avenues", such as Avenida Amsterdam in colonia Hipódromo.<ref name=sanchez/>
One unique example of a garden suburb is the ] in the United Kingdom by the Humberstone Anchor Tenants' Association in ], and it is the only garden suburb ever to be built by the members of a workers' co-operative; it remains intact to the present.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/Leicester%20Garden%20suburb.htm |title= Humberstone Garden Suburb |publisher=Utopia Britannica |location= UK |access-date= 2011-03-28 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110718205515/http://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/Leicester%20Garden%20suburb.htm |archive-date= 2011-07-18 |url-status= live }}</ref> In 1887 the workers of the Anchor Shoe Company in Humberstone formed a workers' cooperative and built 97 houses. One unique example of a garden suburb is the ] in the United Kingdom by the Humberstone Anchor Tenants' Association in ], and it is the only garden suburb ever to be built by the members of a workers' co-operative; it remains intact to the present.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/Leicester%20Garden%20suburb.htm |title= Humberstone Garden Suburb |publisher=Utopia Britannica |location= UK |access-date= 2011-03-28 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110718205515/http://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/Leicester%20Garden%20suburb.htm |archive-date= 2011-07-18 |url-status= live }}</ref> In 1887 the workers of the Anchor Shoe Company in Humberstone formed a workers' cooperative and built 97 houses.


American architects and partners, ] and ]<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture|last = Goad|first = Philip|publisher = Cambridge University Press|year = 2012}}</ref> were proponents of the movement and after their arrival in ] to design the national capital ], they produced a number of garden suburb estates, most notably at ] with the ]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Victorian Heritage Database|url=https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/14277|date=January 5, 2007|website=vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref> and Mount Eagle Estates<ref>{{Cite web|title=Victorian Heritage Database|url=https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/11115|date=January 5, 2007|website=vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref> and the Ranelagh and Milleara Estates in Victoria. American architects and partners, ] and ]<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture|last = Goad|first = Philip|publisher = Cambridge University Press|year = 2012}}</ref> were proponents of the movement and after their arrival in ] to design the national capital ], they produced a number of garden suburb estates, most notably at ] with the ]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Victorian Heritage Database|url=https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/14277|date=January 5, 2007|website=vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au|access-date=2020-05-18|archive-date=2018-05-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514073826/http://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/14277|url-status=live}}</ref> and Mount Eagle Estates<ref>{{Cite web|title=Victorian Heritage Database|url=https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/11115|date=January 5, 2007|website=vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au|access-date=2020-05-18|archive-date=2017-01-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116093307/http://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/11115|url-status=live}}</ref> and the Ranelagh and Milleara Estates in Victoria.


The idea of garden suburbs was implemented by the Jewish settlers in ] and later in ].<ref>]), "The Extension of Ebenezer Howard's Ideas on Urbanization outside the British Isles: The Example of Palestine", {{JSTOR|41146338}}</ref> {{cite book|editor1=Liora Bigon |editor2=] |title=Garden Cities and Colonial Planning |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLSkDAAAQBAJ |publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-1-5261-0678-0 |year= 2014 The idea of garden suburbs was implemented by the Jewish settlers in ] and later in ], as well as in British and French colonial urban areas in Africa.<ref>]), "The Extension of Ebenezer Howard's Ideas on Urbanization outside the British Isles: The Example of Palestine", {{JSTOR|41146338}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Garden Cities and Colonial Planning |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-5261-0678-0 |editor1=Liora Bigon |chapter=From metropolitan to colonial planning: Dakar between garden city and cité-jardin |editor2=] |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLSkDAAAQBAJ |access-date=2021-11-18 |archive-date=2024-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525073244/https://books.google.com/books?id=XLSkDAAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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== Bibliography == == Further reading ==
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* Bigon, Liora. "Garden Cities." in ''The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies'' (2019) pp: 1-6. * Bigon, Liora. "Garden Cities." in ''The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies'' (2019) pp: 1-6.
* Bigon, Liora, and Y. Katz, eds. ''Garden Cities and Colonial Planning: Transnationality and Urban Ideas in Africa and Palestine'' (Manchester University Press, 2014). * Bigon, Liora, and Y. Katz, eds. ''Garden Cities and Colonial Planning: Transnationality and Urban Ideas in Africa and Palestine'' (Manchester University Press, 2014). {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623232057/http://www.urbanafrica.net/review/review-garden-cities-colonial-planning-transnationality-urban-ideas-africa-palestine/ |date=2015-06-23 }}

* Clevenger, Samuel M., and David L. Andrews. "Regenerating the ‘Stock’ of the Empire: Biopower and Physical Culture in English Garden City Planning Discourse, 1898-1903." ''International Journal of the History of Sport'' (2021): 1-20. * Clevenger, Samuel M., and David L. Andrews. "Regenerating the ‘Stock’ of the Empire: Biopower and Physical Culture in English Garden City Planning Discourse, 1898-1903." ''International Journal of the History of Sport'' (2021): 1-20.
* Freestone, Robert. "The garden city idea in Australia." ''Australian Geographical Studies'' 20.1 (1982): 24-48. * Freestone, Robert. "The garden city idea in Australia." ''Australian Geographical Studies'' 20.1 (1982): 24-48.

* Geertse, Michel. "The International Garden City campaign: transnational negotiations on town planning methods 1913-1926." ''Journal of Urban History'' 42.4 (2016): 733-752. * Geertse, Michel. "The International Garden City campaign: transnational negotiations on town planning methods 1913-1926." ''Journal of Urban History'' 42.4 (2016): 733-752.
* Jones, Karen R. "'The Lungs of the City': Green Space, Public Health and Bodily Metaphor in the Landscape of Urban Park History." ''Environment and History'' 24.1 (2018): 39-58 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123165053/https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/eh/2018/00000024/00000001/art00005?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf |date=2022-01-23 }}.

* Knight, Frances. "The Victorian city and the Christian imagination: from gothic city to garden city." ''Urban History'' 48.1 (2021): 37-53 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123164230/https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/preview/2346225/Urban%20History%20finally%20accepted%20_.pdf |date=2022-01-23 }}.
* Jones, Karen R. "'The Lungs of the City': Green Space, Public Health and Bodily Metaphor in the Landscape of Urban Park History." ''Environment and History'' 24.1 (2018): 39-58 .

* Knight, Frances. "The Victorian city and the Christian imagination: from gothic city to garden city." ''Urban History'' 48.1 (2021): 37-53 .
* Kolankiewicz, Victoria, David Nichols, and Robert Freestone. "The tribulations of Walter Burley Griffin’s final Australian plan: Milleara as ‘the garden city of the future’ 1925–1965." ''Planning Perspectives'' 34.5 (2019): 911-923; on Melbourne suburbs. * Kolankiewicz, Victoria, David Nichols, and Robert Freestone. "The tribulations of Walter Burley Griffin’s final Australian plan: Milleara as ‘the garden city of the future’ 1925–1965." ''Planning Perspectives'' 34.5 (2019): 911-923; on Melbourne suburbs.
* Lewis, John. "Preserving and maintaining the concept of Letchworth Garden City." ''Planning perspectives'' 30.1 (2015): 153-163. * Lewis, John. "Preserving and maintaining the concept of Letchworth Garden City." ''Planning perspectives'' 30.1 (2015): 153-163.

* Meacham, Standish. ''Regaining Paradise: Englishness and the Early Garden City Movement'' (1999). * Meacham, Standish. ''Regaining Paradise: Englishness and the Early Garden City Movement'' (1999).
* Miller, Mervyn. "Commemorating and celebrating Raymond Unwin (1863–1940)." ''Planning Perspectives'' 30.1 (2015): 129-140. * Miller, Mervyn. "Commemorating and celebrating Raymond Unwin (1863–1940)." ''Planning Perspectives'' 30.1 (2015): 129-140.
* Nikologianni, Anastasia, and Peter J. Larkham. "The Urban Future: Relating Garden City Ideas to the Climate Emergency." ''Land'' 11.2 (2022): 147+. * Nikologianni, Anastasia, and Peter J. Larkham. "The Urban Future: Relating Garden City Ideas to the Climate Emergency." ''Land'' 11.2 (2022): 147+.
* Purdom, Charles Benjamin. ''The Garden City: a study in the development of a modern town'' (JM Dent & sons Limited, 1913), on Letchworth. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230630221114/https://books.google.com/books?id=YEUpkkm2MGkC&dq=green+town+garden+city&pg=PR1 |date=2023-06-30 }}

* Reade, Charles C. "A defence of the Garden City movement." ''The Town Planning Review'' 4.3 (1913): 245-251, a primary source; {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123172357/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40100058 |date=2022-01-23 }}
* Purdom, Charles Benjamin. ''The Garden City: a study in the development of a modern town'' (JM Dent & sons Limited, 1913), on Letchworth.
* {{Citation | last1 = Ross | first1 = P | last2 = Cabannes | first2 = Y | year = 2012 | title = 21st Century Garden Cities of To-morrow - How to become a Garden City | publisher = New Garden City Movement | location = Letchworth Garden City | url = http://www.newgardencitymovement.org.uk/ | access-date = 2013-05-14 | archive-date = 2013-08-23 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130823141401/http://newgardencitymovement.org.uk/ | url-status = live }}.

* Reade, Charles C. "A defence of the Garden City movement." ''The Town Planning Review'' 4.3 (1913): 245-251, a primary source;

* {{Citation | last1 = Ross | first1 = P | last2 = Cabannes | first2 = Y | year = 2012 | title = 21st Century Garden Cities of To-morrow - How to become a Garden City | publisher = New Garden City Movement | location = Letchworth Garden City |url = http://www.newgardencitymovement.org.uk }}.
* Stern, Robert A. M., David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove, eds. ''Paradise planned: the garden suburb and the modern city'' (Monacelli Press, 2013). * Stern, Robert A. M., David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove, eds. ''Paradise planned: the garden suburb and the modern city'' (Monacelli Press, 2013).
* van Rooijen, Maurits. "Garden city versus green town: The case of Amsterdam 1910–1935." ''Planning Perspective'' 5.3 (1990): 285-293. * van Rooijen, Maurits. "Garden city versus green town: The case of Amsterdam 1910–1935." ''Planning Perspective'' 5.3 (1990): 285-293.
* Ward, Stephen. ''The garden city: Past, present and future'' (Routledge, 2005). * Ward, Stephen. ''The garden city: Past, present and future'' (Routledge, 2005).

* Wilson, Matthew. "A new civic spirit for garden city-states: on the lifework of Sybella Gurney." ''Journal of Planning History'' 17.4 (2018): 320-344. {{dead link|date=July 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} * Wilson, Matthew. "A new civic spirit for garden city-states: on the lifework of Sybella Gurney." ''Journal of Planning History'' 17.4 (2018): 320-344. {{dead link|date=July 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

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This article is about a method of urban planning. For the band, see Garden City Movement (band). "Garden town" and "Garden Cities" redirect here. For other uses, see Garden town (disambiguation) and Garden City (disambiguation). For a list of garden cities, see List of garden cities. Urban planning movement
Ebenezer Howard's three magnets diagram, which addressed the question, "Where will the people go?", with three choices being: "Town", "Country", or "Town-Country".
Ebenezer Howard's "Diagram illustrating correct principle of a city's growth"
Ebenezer Howard's "Diagram illustrating correct principle of a city's growth"

The garden city movement was a 20th century urban planning movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with greenbelts. These Garden Cities would contain proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture. Ebenezer Howard first posited the idea in 1898 as a way to capture the primary benefits of the countryside and the city while avoiding the disadvantages presented by both. In the early 20th century, Letchworth, Brentham Garden Suburb, and Welwyn Garden City were built in or near London according to Howard's concept and many other garden cities inspired by his model have since been built all over the world.

History

Conception

Howard's diagram illustrating the Garden City concept
Howard's diagram illustrating the Garden City concept

Inspired by the utopian novel Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, and Henry George's work Progress and Poverty, Howard published the book To-morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1898 (reissued in 1902 as Garden Cities of To-morrow). His idealised garden city would house 32,000 people on a site of 9,000 acres (3,600 ha). Howard's diagrams presented such a city in a concentric pattern with open spaces, public parks, and six radial boulevards, 120 ft (37 m) wide, extending from the centre, although he made it clear that the actual site planning should be left to experts. The garden city would be self-sufficient and when it reached full population, another would be developed nearby. Howard envisaged a cluster of several garden cities as satellites of a central city of 58,000 people, linked by road and rail.

Howard's To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform sold enough copies to warrant a second edition, now titled Garden Cities of To-morrow. This success of this book provided him the support necessary to pursue the chance to bring his vision into reality. Howard believed that all people agreed the overcrowding and deterioration of cities was one of the troubling issues of their time. He quotes a number of respected thinkers and their disdain of cities. Howard's garden city concept combined the town and country in order to provide the working class an alternative to working on farms or in "crowded, unhealthy cities".

First developments

To build a garden city, Howard needed money to buy land. He decided to get funding from "gentlemen of responsible position and undoubted probity and honour". He founded the Garden City Association (later known as the Town and Country Planning Association or TCPA), which created First Garden City, Ltd. in 1899 to create the garden city of Letchworth. However, these donors would collect interest on their investment if the garden city generated profits through rents or, as Fishman calls the process, "philanthropic land speculation". Howard tried to include working class cooperative organisations, which included over two million members, but could not win their financial support. Because he had to rely only on the wealthy investors of First Garden City, Howard had to make concessions to his plan, such as eliminating the cooperative ownership scheme with no landlords, short-term rent increases, and hiring architects who did not agree with his rigid design plans.

In 1904, Raymond Unwin, a noted architect and town planner, and his partner Barry Parker, won the competition run by First Garden City Ltd. to plan Letchworth, an area 34 miles outside London. Unwin and Parker planned the town in the centre of the Letchworth estate with Howard's large agricultural greenbelt surrounding the town, and they shared Howard's notion that the working class deserved better and more affordable housing. However, the architects ignored Howard's symmetric design, instead replacing it with a more 'organic' design.

Letchworth slowly attracted more residents because it brought in manufacturers through low taxes, low rents, and more space. Despite Howard's best efforts, the home prices in this garden city could not remain affordable for blue-collar workers to live in. The populations comprised mostly skilled middle class workers. After a decade, the First Garden City became profitable and started paying dividends to its investors. Although many viewed Letchworth as a success, it did not immediately inspire government investment into the next line of garden cities.

In reference to the lack of government support for garden cities, Frederic James Osborn, a colleague of Howard and his eventual successor at the Garden City Association, recalled him saying, "The only way to get anything done is to do it yourself." Likely in frustration, Howard bought land at Welwyn to house the second garden city in 1919. The purchase was at auction, with money Howard desperately and successfully borrowed from friends. The Welwyn Garden City Corporation was formed to oversee the construction. But Welwyn did not become self-sustaining because it was only 20 miles from London.

Even until the end of the 1930s, Letchworth and Welwyn remained as the only existing garden cities in the United Kingdom. However, the movement did succeed in emphasizing the need for urban planning policies that eventually led to the New Town movement.

Garden cities: the spread of an idea

Howard organised the Garden City Association in 1899. Two garden cities were built using Howard's ideas: Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City, both in the county of Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. Howard's successor as chairman of the Garden City Association was Sir Frederic Osborn, who extended the movement to regional planning.

Garden City principles greatly influenced the design of colonial and post-colonial capitals during the early part of the 20th century. This is the case for New Delhi (designed as the new capital of British India after World War I), of Canberra (capital of Australia established in 1913) and of Quezon City (established in 1939, capital of the Philippines from 1948 to 1976).

Outside the British empire, the ideas quickly spread as well.

Early examples

Further information: List of garden cities

Africa

Asia

  • Israel. The Garden City movement also influenced the Scottish urbanist Sir Patrick Geddes in the planning of Tel Aviv, Israel, in the 1920s, during the British Mandate for Palestine. Geddes started his Tel Aviv plan in 1925 and submitted the final version in 1927, so all growth of this garden city during the 1930s was merely "based" on the Geddes Plan. Changes were inevitable. Similarly, in the 1920s, German-born Jewish architect Richard Kauffman designed several neighborhoods under Garden City influence, including Beth HaKerem, Rehavia, Bayit ve-Gan and Kiryat Moshe in Jerusalem, as well as Hadar HaCarmel, Bat Galim, Newe Shaanan, and Central and Western Carmel in Haifa as well as the historical center of Afula. He referred to these neighborhoods as "Garden Suburbs."
  • Japan. In Japan, several towns were inspired by the Garden City movement in the early 1900s, including Den-en-chofu, Yamato Village (around Rikugi-en Gardens), and Omiya Bonsai Village. As with many Garden Cities, despite goals of creating classless societies, each of these examples became increasingly exclusive and populated primarily by wealthy statesmen and celebrities.
Further information: Talk:Garden city movement § Omiya Bonsai Village, and Talk:Garden city movement § Sandbox: In Japan case (used google translate.)
  • Vietnam. The garden city model was also applied to many colonial hill stations, such as Da Lat in Vietnam (est. 1907).

Europe

An attempt at a garden city: Zlín in Czechia (architect: František Lydie Gahura)
The Workers Academy in Kauniainen, the garden city of Finland
  • Belgium. In Belgium the Garden City movement started early, but took roots in the 1910s, directly connected to industrial development, especially that of the coal mines. Early examples are Tuinwijk Beringen-Mijn (1908), Tuinwijk van Zwartberg (1910), and Eisden-Tuinwijk (1911). After the First World War, there was a huge need for new housing, and the principles were widely applied. Social housing associations were created, often linked to political movements. In Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent new extensions of the city were built. The houses in these areas are still very popular among residents and classified as historical heritage.
  • Czechia. In the former Czechoslovakia, all industrial cities founded or reconstructed by the Bata Shoes company (Zlín, Svit, Partizánske) were influenced by the conception of the Garden City.
  • Finland. Kauniainen is an early example, which was founded by a corporation in 1906, AB Grankulla.
  • France. The Garden City movement was very influential in France. The concept of garden city (cité jardin), was closely related to the concept of the 'workers city' (cité ouvrière). All over the country settlements were established accordingly.
  • Germany. Along with the UK, Germany was at the forefront of the Garden Cities movement, starting in the late 19th century, part of a broader discourse on social renewal. Specific projects were typically the results of private initiatives.
  • Hungary. Originally built in Kispest (now part of Budapest) in 1908, Wekerletelep is a prime example of the garden city concept
  • Poland. Located on the south-west outskirts of Warsaw, both Komorów (Komorów, Pruszków County), as well, as Podkowa Leśna, Brwinów and Milanówek are based on Howard's garden-city concept.
  • Netherlands. The concept of the Garden City was widely applied in different parts of the country, mainly as 'garden villages', such as Tuindorp Vreewijk in Rotterdam, Tuindorp 't Lansink in Hengelo, Tuindorp Oostzaan in Amsterdam, and Tuindorp Watergraafsmeer (Betondorp) in Amsterdam. In most cases, private industrial companies took the initiative. The development continued on a bigger scale after the Second World War, now initiated and controlled by municipalities, with examples such as the Westelijke Tuinsteden (a part of Amsterdam).
  • United Kingdom – Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City (see History above)
  • Ukraine – Nova Kakhovka

North America

Oceania

  • Australia. The Dacey Garden Suburb (now Daceyville) was established in 1912 based on Garden City principles. The suburb of Colonel Light Gardens in Adelaide, South Australia was also designed according to Garden City principles. So too the town of Sunshine which is now a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria and the suburb of Lalor, also in Melbourne. The Peter Lalor Estate in Lalor takes its name from a leader of the Eureka Stockade and remains today in its original form. However it is under threat from developers and Whittlesea Council. Lalor:Peter Lalor Home Building Cooperative 1946-2012 Scollay, Moira. Pre-dating these was the garden suburb of Haberfield in 1901 by Richard Stanton, organised on a vertical integrated model from land subdivision, mortgage financing, house and interior designs and site landscaping.
  • New Zealand. Garden city ideals were employed in the original town planning of Christchurch. Prior to the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, the city infrastructure and homes were well integrated into green spaces. The rebuild blueprint rethought the garden city concept and how it would best suit the city. Greenbelts and urban greenspaces have been redesigned to incorporate more living spaces.

South America

Criticisms

While garden cities were praised for being an alternative to overcrowded and industrial cities, along with greater sustainability, garden cities were often criticized for damaging the economy, being destructive of the beauty of nature, and being inconvenient. According to A. Trystan Edwards, garden cities engender desecration of the countryside by trying to recreate countryside suburbs that could spread on their own; however, this was not a possible feat due to the limited space that they had (except at their outermost edges).

More recently, the environmental movement's embrace of urban density has offered an "implicit critique" of the garden city movement. In this way the critique of the concept resembles critiques of other suburbanization models, though author Stephen Ward has argued that critics often do not adequately distinguish between true garden cities and more mundane dormitory city plans.

It is often referred to as an urban-design experiment which is typified by failure due to the laneways used as common entries and exits to the houses, thereby helping to ghettoise communities and encourage crime; it has ultimately triggered efforts to 'de-Radburn'-ize, or to partially demolish American-Radburn-designed public housing areas.

When interviewed in 1998, the architect responsible for introducing the design to public housing in New South Wales, Philip Cox, was reported to have admitted with regards to an American-Radburn-designed estate in the suburb of Villawood, "everything that could go wrong in a society went wrong," and "it became the centre of drugs, it became the centre of violence and, eventually, the police refused to go into it. It was hell."

Legacy

The concept of the Garden City was adopted again in the UK after World War II, when the New Towns Act spurred the development of many new communities based on Howard's egalitarian ideas. It also affected town planning in other countries, such as Italy; the INA-Casa plan – a national public housing plan from the 1950s and '60s – designed several suburbs according to Garden City principles: examples are found in many cities and towns of the country, such as the Isolotto suburb in Florence, Falchera in Turin, Harar in Milan, Cesate Villaggio in Cesate (part of the Metropolitan City of Milan), etc.

More recent application of the principles can be found in different contexts across the world. In Bhutan's capital city Thimphu, for example, the new plan, following the Principles of Intelligent Urbanism, is an organic response to the fragile ecology. Using sustainable concepts, it is a contemporary response to the garden city concept. The Epcot Center in Bay Lake, Florida, took some influence from Howard's Garden City concept while the park was still under construction. Singapore, a tropical city, has over time incorporated various facets of the Garden City concept in its town plans to try and make the country a unique City in a Garden. In the 1970s, the country started including concepts in its town plans to ensure that building codes and land use plans made adequate provisions for greenery and nature to become part of community development, thereby providing a great living environment. In 1996, the National Parks Board was given the mandate to spearhead the development and maintenance of greenery and bring the island's green spaces and parks to the community.

Contemporary town-planning charters like New Urbanism and Principles of Intelligent Urbanism originated with this movement. Today there are many garden cities in the world, but most of them have devolved to dormitory suburbs, which completely differ from what Howard aimed to create.

In 2007, the Town and Country Planning Association marked its 108th anniversary by calling for Garden City and Garden Suburb principles to be applied to the present New Towns and Eco-towns in the United Kingdom. The campaign continued in 2013 with the publication in March of that year of "Creating Garden Cities and Suburbs Today - a guide for councils". Also in 2013, Lord Simon Wolfson announced that he would award the Wolfson Economics Prize for the best ideas on how to create a new garden city.

In 2014 The Letchworth Declaration was published which called for a body to accredit future garden cities in the UK. The declaration has a strong focus on the visible (architecture and layout) and the invisible (social, ownership and governance) architecture of a settlement. One result was the creation of the New Garden Cities Alliance as a community interest company. Its aim is to be complementary to groups like the Town and Country Planning Association and it has adopted TCPA garden city principles as well as those from other groups, including those from Cabannes and Ross's booklet 21st Century Garden Cities of To-morrow.

New garden cities and towns

British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced plans for a new garden city to be built at Ebbsfleet Valley, Kent, in early 2014, with a second also planned as an expansion of Bicester, Oxfordshire. The United Kingdom government announced further plans for garden towns in 2015, supporting both the development of new communities in North Essex and support for sustainable and environmentally-friendly town development in Didcot, Oxfordshire. A "Black Country Garden City" was announced in 2016 with plans to build 45,000 new homes in the West Midlands on brownfield sites.

On 2 January 2017, plans for new garden villages, each with between 1,500 and 10,000 homes, and garden towns each with more than 10,000 houses were announced by the government. These smaller projects have been proposed due to opposition of "urban sprawl" in the garden city projects, as well as such quick expansion to small communities. The first wave of villages to be approved by ministers are to be located in:

The approved garden towns are to be located in:

Diagrams

Diagrams from the 1898 edition

  • Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.
  • Diagram No.1: The Three Magnets (Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.) Diagram No.1: The Three Magnets (Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.)
  • Diagram No.2 (Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.) Diagram No.2 (Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.)
  • Diagram No.3 (Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.) Diagram No.3 (Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.)
  • Diagram No.4 (Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.) Diagram No.4 (Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.)
  • Diagram No.5 (Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.) Diagram No.5 (Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.)
  • Diagram No.6 (Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.) Diagram No.6 (Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.)
  • Diagram No.7 (Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.) Diagram No.7 (Ebenezer Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.)

Diagrams from the 1922 edition

  • Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow. Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.
  • Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow. Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.
  • Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow. Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.
  • Diagram No.1 (Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.) Diagram No.1 (Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.)
  • Diagram No.2 (Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.) Diagram No.2 (Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.)
  • Diagram No.3 (Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.) Diagram No.3 (Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.)
  • Diagram No.4 (Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.) Diagram No.4 (Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.)

"Den-en Toshi (Garden City)" Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1907

  • "Den-en Toshi (Garden City)" Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1907. "Den-en Toshi (Garden City)" Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1907.
  • "Den-en Toshi (Garden City)" Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1907. "Den-en Toshi (Garden City)" Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1907.
  • Diagram No.1 ("Den-en Toshi (Garden City)" Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1907.) Diagram No.1 ("Den-en Toshi (Garden City)" Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1907.)
  • Diagram No.2 ("Den-en Toshi (Garden City)" Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1907.) Diagram No.2 ("Den-en Toshi (Garden City)" Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1907.)
  • "Den-en Toshi (Garden City)" Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1907. "Den-en Toshi (Garden City)" Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1907.

Garden suburbs

The concept of garden cities is to produce relatively economically independent cities with short commute times and the preservation of the countryside. Garden suburbs arguably do the opposite. Garden suburbs are built on the outskirts of large cities with no sections of industry. They are therefore dependent on reliable transport allowing workers to commute into the city. Lewis Mumford, one of Howard's disciples, explained the difference as "The Garden City, as Howard defined it, is not a suburb but the antithesis of a suburb: not a rural retreat, but a more integrated foundation for an effective urban life."

The planned garden suburb emerged in the late 19th century as a by-product of new types of transportation were embraced by a newly prosperous merchant class. The first garden villages were built by English estate owners, who wanted to relocate or rebuild villages on their lands. It was in these cases that architects first began designing small houses. Early examples include Harewood and Milton Abbas. Major innovations that defined early garden suburbs and subsequent suburban town planning include linking villa-like homes with landscaped public spaces and roads.

Despite the emergence of the garden suburb in England, the typology flowered in the second half of the 19th century in United States. There were generally two garden suburb typologies, the garden village and the garden enclave. The garden villages are spatially independent of the city but remain connected to the city by railroads, streetcars, and later automobiles. The villages often included shops and civic buildings. In contrast, garden enclaves are typically strictly residential and emphasize natural and private space, instead of public and community space. The urban form of the enclaves was often coordinated through the use of early land use controls typical of modern zoning, including controlled setbacks, landscaping, and materials.

Garden suburbs were not part of Howard's plan and were actually a hindrance to garden city planning—they were in fact almost the antithesis of Howard's plan, what he tried to prevent. The suburbanisation of London was an increasing problem which Howard attempted to solve with his garden city model, which attempted to end urban sprawl by the sheer inhibition of land speculation due to the land being held in trust, and the inclusion of agricultural areas on the city outskirts.

Raymond Unwin, one of Howard's early collaborators on the Letchworth Garden City project in 1907, became very influential in formalizing the garden city principles in the design of suburbs through his work Town Planning in Practice: An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs (1909). The book strongly influenced the Housing and Town Planning Act of 1909, which provided municipalities the power to develop urban plans for new suburban communities.

Smaller developments were also inspired by the garden city philosophy and were modified to allow for residential "garden suburbs" without the commercial and industrial components of the garden city. They were built on the outskirts of cities, in rural settings. Some notable examples being, in London, Hampstead Garden Suburb, the Sutton Garden Suburb in Benhilton, Sutton, Pinner's Pinnerwood conversation area and the Romford Garden Suburb in Gidea Park and, in Liverpool, Wavertree Garden Suburb. The Gidea Park estate in particular was built during two main periods of activity, 1911 and 1934. Both resulted in some good examples of domestic architecture, by such architects as Wells Coates and Berthold Lubetkin. Thanks to such strongly conservative local residents' associations as the Civic Society, both Hampstead and Gidea Park retain much of their original character.

Bournville Village Trust in Birmingham, UK, is an important residential development which was associated with the growth of 'Cadbury's Factory in a Garden'. Here garden city principles are a fundamental part of the Trust's activity. There are tight restrictions applying to the properties here such as no stonewall cladding.

Park median in Avenida Ámsterdam, the "grand avenue" of the Mexico City subdivision Colonia Hipódromo de la Condesa, designed in 1926 and inspired in part by Ebenezer Howard's Garden City

Howard's influence reached as far as Mexico City, where architect José Luis Cuevas was influenced by the garden city concept in the design of two of the most iconic inner-city subdivisions, Colonia Hipódromo de la Condesa (1926) and Lomas de Chapultepec (1928-9):

The subdivisions were based on the principles of the garden city as promoted by Ebenezer Howard, including ample parks and other open spaces, park islands in the middle of "grand avenues", such as Avenida Amsterdam in colonia Hipódromo. One unique example of a garden suburb is the Humberstone Garden Suburb in the United Kingdom by the Humberstone Anchor Tenants' Association in Leicestershire, and it is the only garden suburb ever to be built by the members of a workers' co-operative; it remains intact to the present. In 1887 the workers of the Anchor Shoe Company in Humberstone formed a workers' cooperative and built 97 houses.

American architects and partners, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin were proponents of the movement and after their arrival in Australia to design the national capital Canberra, they produced a number of garden suburb estates, most notably at Eaglemont with the Glenard and Mount Eagle Estates and the Ranelagh and Milleara Estates in Victoria.

The idea of garden suburbs was implemented by the Jewish settlers in Mandate Palestine and later in Israel, as well as in British and French colonial urban areas in Africa.

See also

Related urban design concepts

Notes

  1. Examples being the ancient city of Chan Chan (20 km (7.7 sq mi), 850 AD) in Trujillo, north of Lima, and the 12th-century Inca city of Machu Picchu. Peru's modern capital, Lima, was designed in 1535 by Spanish Conquistadors to replace its ancient past as a religious sanctuary with 37 pyramids.

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Further reading

  • Bigon, Liora. "Garden Cities." in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (2019) pp: 1-6.
  • Bigon, Liora, and Y. Katz, eds. Garden Cities and Colonial Planning: Transnationality and Urban Ideas in Africa and Palestine (Manchester University Press, 2014). online review Archived 2015-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
  • Clevenger, Samuel M., and David L. Andrews. "Regenerating the ‘Stock’ of the Empire: Biopower and Physical Culture in English Garden City Planning Discourse, 1898-1903." International Journal of the History of Sport (2021): 1-20.
  • Freestone, Robert. "The garden city idea in Australia." Australian Geographical Studies 20.1 (1982): 24-48.
  • Geertse, Michel. "The International Garden City campaign: transnational negotiations on town planning methods 1913-1926." Journal of Urban History 42.4 (2016): 733-752.
  • Jones, Karen R. "'The Lungs of the City': Green Space, Public Health and Bodily Metaphor in the Landscape of Urban Park History." Environment and History 24.1 (2018): 39-58 online Archived 2022-01-23 at the Wayback Machine.
  • Knight, Frances. "The Victorian city and the Christian imagination: from gothic city to garden city." Urban History 48.1 (2021): 37-53 online Archived 2022-01-23 at the Wayback Machine.
  • Kolankiewicz, Victoria, David Nichols, and Robert Freestone. "The tribulations of Walter Burley Griffin’s final Australian plan: Milleara as ‘the garden city of the future’ 1925–1965." Planning Perspectives 34.5 (2019): 911-923; on Melbourne suburbs.
  • Lewis, John. "Preserving and maintaining the concept of Letchworth Garden City." Planning perspectives 30.1 (2015): 153-163.
  • Meacham, Standish. Regaining Paradise: Englishness and the Early Garden City Movement (1999).
  • Miller, Mervyn. "Commemorating and celebrating Raymond Unwin (1863–1940)." Planning Perspectives 30.1 (2015): 129-140.
  • Nikologianni, Anastasia, and Peter J. Larkham. "The Urban Future: Relating Garden City Ideas to the Climate Emergency." Land 11.2 (2022): 147+.
  • Purdom, Charles Benjamin. The Garden City: a study in the development of a modern town (JM Dent & sons Limited, 1913), on Letchworth. online Archived 2023-06-30 at the Wayback Machine
  • Reade, Charles C. "A defence of the Garden City movement." The Town Planning Review 4.3 (1913): 245-251, a primary source; online Archived 2022-01-23 at the Wayback Machine
  • Ross, P; Cabannes, Y (2012), 21st Century Garden Cities of To-morrow - How to become a Garden City, Letchworth Garden City: New Garden City Movement, archived from the original on 2013-08-23, retrieved 2013-05-14.
  • Stern, Robert A. M., David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove, eds. Paradise planned: the garden suburb and the modern city (Monacelli Press, 2013).
  • van Rooijen, Maurits. "Garden city versus green town: The case of Amsterdam 1910–1935." Planning Perspective 5.3 (1990): 285-293.
  • Ward, Stephen. The garden city: Past, present and future (Routledge, 2005).
  • Wilson, Matthew. "A new civic spirit for garden city-states: on the lifework of Sybella Gurney." Journal of Planning History 17.4 (2018): 320-344. online

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