Garden city movement

The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture.

Inspired by the utopian novel Looking Backward and Henry George's work Progress and Poverty, Howard published his book To-morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1898 (which was reissued in 1902 as Garden Cities of To-morrow). His idealised garden city would house 32,000 people on a site of 6,000 acres (2,400 ha), planned on a concentric pattern with open spaces, public parks and six radial boulevards, 120 ft (37 m) wide, extending from the centre. The garden city would be self-sufficient and when it reached full population, another garden city would be developed nearby. Howard envisaged a cluster of several garden cities as satellites of a central city of 250,000 people, linked by road and rail.

Garden City

Garden City or Garden Suburb may refer to:

Design and planning

Places

Australia

Canada

Finland

Japan

South Africa

Garden Suburb, New South Wales

Garden Suburb is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales 12 kilometres (7 mi) west of the Newcastle's central business district in Lake Macquarie's North Ward.

History

The area had orchards and market gardens before it was developed in the 1950s. The public school opened in 1958. The suburb was formally named Cherryville.

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Coordinates: 32°56′56″S 151°39′04″E / 32.949°S 151.651°E / -32.949; 151.651