garden city

noun

: a planned residential community with park and planted areas

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Inspired by housing developments in England, Backhouse envisaged a garden city with satellite towns and ample greenbelts. —

Kimon De Greef, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023 Indeed, Lee Kuan Yew, the first prime minister, launched the idea of Singapore as a garden city back in 1967. —

Harnoor Channi-tiwary, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022 Some roles are dedicated to The Line, an ambitious 1,600-feet structure that will house 9 million residents that the country says will have many elements of nature like a vertical garden city. —

Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2022 The story of this pair’s vain effort to build a utopian garden city powered by a mammoth hydroelectric dam at Muscle Shoals, Ala., is all but forgotten. —

Edward Kosner, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021 There’s surely something dystopian about 5 million people existing in a garden city built by the guy who founded Diapers.com, all of them living and working in a desert oasis and voting by app. —

Molly Osberg, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021 Welwyn Garden City was the second garden city to be built in Britain, after Letchworth, a few miles to the north in Hertfordshire. —

The Economist, 17 Apr. 2021 Known as Oregon’s garden city or the city by the falls, Silverton is about 45 miles from Portland. —

USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2017 See More

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