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garden city
(redirected from Garden Cities)

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garden city
n.
A residential suburb or community planned so as to provide a pleasant environment with low-density housing and open public land.
garden city
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Brit a planned town of limited size with broad streets and spacious layout, containing trees and open spaces and surrounded by a rural belt See also garden suburb
Translations
garden city n (Brit) → città giardino f inv
garden city n (Brit) → città giardino f inv


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It covers the main built forms and utopian proposals of Modernist town planning, including the Garden Cities movement and Le Corbusier's Ville Contemporaine visions, and explores the New Urbanist movement that has led to developments like Seaside and Celebration in the US, and Poundbury in the UK.
Urban ideals by Open, Bobby / The Architectural Review
Her new book, traces the more successful of council housing estates back to Howard's Garden Cities and the work of Unwin and the Arts and Crafts architects and the least successful to the impact of the Modern Movement and the pressure on local authorities by a Conservative government to adopt system-built high-rise solutions.
Council Housing and Culture: The History of a Social Experiment. ... by Ward, Colin / The Architectural Review
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