Garden City Explained

Garden City or Garden Suburb may refer to:

Design and planning

• Garden city movement, emphasizing self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts"
• Town and Country Planning Association, originally known as the Garden City Association

Places

Africa and the Middle East

• Garden City (Cairo), Egypt, a district
• Garden City (Nigeria), nickname of Port Harcourt
• Garden City, Khartoum

Asia

• Singapore, nicknamed the "Garden City" due to its parks and tree-lined streets

Europe

United Kingdom

• Garden City, Flintshire, Wales
• Garden Suburb, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England
• Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, England
• Humberstone Garden Suburb, Leicester, England
• Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, designed by Ebenezer Howard, originator of the Garden City movement
• Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, also designed by Howard

France

• Garden City of Suresnes, designed by Alexandre Maistrasse, Julien Quoniam and Félix Dumail
• , designed by Eugène Gonnot and Georges Albenque
• , designed by Félix Dumail

Elsewhere in Europe

• Gartenstadt (Garden City), a district of Krefeld, Germany

North America

Canada

• Garden City, Winnipeg
• Garden City Skyway, a major high-level bridge in St. Catharines and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
• St. Catharines, Ontario, also known as "The Garden City"
• Victoria, British Columbia, also known as "The Garden City"

United States

• Garden City, Alabama
• Garden City, Colorado
• Garden City, Florida
• Garden City, Georgia
• Garden City, Idaho
• Garden City, Indiana
• Garden City, Iowa
• Garden City, Kansas
  • Garden City (Amtrak station)
• Garden City, Michigan
• Garden City, Minnesota
• Garden City, Missouri
• Garden City, New York
  • Garden City (LIRR station)
• Garden City, Pennsylvania
• Garden City, a village within Cranston, Rhode Island
• Garden City, South Carolina
• Garden City, South Dakota
• Garden City, Texas
• Garden City, Utah
• Garden City, Roanoke, Virginia
• Maitland, South Dakota, originally called Garden City
• Missoula, Montana, nicknamed "The Garden City"

Oceania

• Garden City, a shopping district in Suva, Fiji
• Garden City, Victoria, a locality within Port Melbourne, Victoria
• Garden Suburb, New South Wales, Australia
• Christchurch, New Zealand, nicknamed "The Garden City"
• Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, nicknamed "The Garden City"
• Westfield Garden City in Upper Mount Gravatt, Queensland, Australia
• Canberra, capital of Australia

South America

• Ciudad Jardín Lomas del Palomar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Maracay, Venezuela, nicknamed "Ciudad Jardín" ("Garden City")
• Viña del Mar, Chile, nicknamed "Ciudad Jardín" ("Garden City")

See also

• Garden City station (disambiguation), stations of the name
• Knowle West, Bristol, England, built as a council housing estate constructed on garden city principles
• Kuala Kubu Bharu, Selangor, Malaysia; the first garden township in Asia
• Meadowridge, a suburb that is the second garden city in Cape Town, South Africa
• Moor Pool, a garden suburb within the ward of Harborne, Birmingham, England
• Nunsthorpe, a suburb of Grimsby, England
• Pinelands, Cape Town, a garden city in Cape Town, South Africa
• Södra Ängby, a residential area blending functionalism with garden city ideals, Stockholm, Sweden, forming part of the Bromma borough
• Tapiola, a garden city district of Espoo, Finland
• Wythenshawe, a district of Manchester, England, a housing estate started in the 1920s and intended as a "garden city"

Arts, entertainment, and media

• "Garden City", B-side of the 1984 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark single "Tesla Girls"
• Garden City Radio 89.9, a radio station in Old GRA, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Brands and enterprises

• Garden City Hotel, in Garden City, New York, USA
• Garden City Mall, Nairobi, a shopping complex in Kasarani, Kenya
• Garden City Publishing, an imprint of Doubleday
• Westfield Booragoon, a shopping centre in Booragoon, Western Australia formerly named Garden City
• Westfield Mt Gravatt, a shopping centre in Upper Mount Gravatt, Brisbane, Australia formerly named Westfield Garden City

Other uses

• Garden City Collegiate, a high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba

See also

• • Garden Village (disambiguation)
• Green City (disambiguation)
• City of Trees (disambiguation)
• Emerald City (disambiguation)
• Sustainable city, green city, or eco-city, designed with consideration of environmental impact