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Recent Examples of garden city
The backstory This is the first Edition in Southeast Asia, a new build designed by Safdie Architects that pays tribute to Singapore’s reputation as a modern garden city.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
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
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
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
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for garden city
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As a 19-year-old from the inner city of Kansas City, Darrion Nimrod created The Outsiders Social Club as a safe space for young adults who were combating their mental health.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
7 Jan. 2026
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The old powers from the inner city — Crenshaw, Dorsey, Jefferson, Locke and Fremont — experienced big changes in demographics.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Jan. 2026
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 31 Jan. 2026.
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