garden city

noun

Definition of garden citynext
as in central city

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Recent Examples of garden city Although Marrakech is known as The Red City, it is also known as a garden city, and the resort is an homage to that. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 July 2026 Opatija is lush, a garden city watered by springs flowing from Mount Učka. — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026 Thank you for the warmest welcome to your garden city. — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025 Manhattan merged with Brooklyn a dozen years before, and here is Greater New York, spreading into new suburbs, boroughs, and garden cities. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025 Initially designed as a garden city with villas, reminiscent of those eastern European cities lost in prior decades, Ankara symbolized the birth of a European country from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire—in the middle of Anatolia. — Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
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  1. inner city
  2. edge city
Noun
  • Most Black people in the inner city shop in variety, drug and discount stores.
    — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 7 July 2026
  • In Johannesburg’s inner city, entire blocks fell silent as street vendors cleared out and retail shops pulled steel shutters down, conjuring up memories of the 2020 pandemic lockdowns.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of inner city
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  • And on Thursday, the investigator chased down a tip Hannan had received from one of his followers that his dog was spotted in Del Valle, an edge city in the Greater Austin area.
    — Luke Chinman, People.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Definition of edge city

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