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Recent Examples of garden city
Manhattan merged with Brooklyn a dozen years before, and here is Greater New York, spreading into new suburbs, boroughs, and garden cities.
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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
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
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
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
The Van Sweringens’ once-formidable real estate empire included Shaker Heights, the garden city-style suburb that imposed restrictive covenants in property deeds that have been widely interpreted as intended to bar sales to Blacks, Jews, and Italians.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 16 Apr. 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
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
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
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
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
The Van Sweringens’ once-formidable real estate empire included Shaker Heights, the garden city-style suburb that imposed restrictive covenants in property deeds that have been widely interpreted as intended to bar sales to Blacks, Jews, and Italians.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 16 Apr. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for garden city
Noun
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That day, students across Jefferson County boarded yellow school buses, with Black students headed to formerly White suburban schools, while White students were bused to formerly Black inner city schools.—
Bailey Loosemore,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Sep. 2025
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Medicaid serves people in every corner of this country, from inner cities to small rural towns, Democrats to Republicans.—
Anahita Dua,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 July 2025
Noun
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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
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“Garden city.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garden%20city. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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