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List of garden cities

List of garden cities is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of garden cities rather than just read about it. In short: The localities in the following lists have been developed directly as garden cities or their development has been heavily influenced by the garden city movement. Detailed information is collected and provided by World Garden Cities, a knowledge platform created by Museum Het Schip in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Key takeaways

List of garden cities belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect List of garden cities to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of List of garden cities from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The localities in the following lists have been developed directly as garden cities or their development has been heavily influenced by the garden city movement. Detailed information is collected and provided by World Garden Cities, a knowledge platform created by Museum Het Schip in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Africa

Morocco Ifrane

South Africa Edgemead, Milnerton Pinehurst, Durbanville Pinelands, Cape Town

Asia

Armenia Kentron District, Yerevan

Hong Kong Kowloon Tong, New Kowloon Sha Tin, the New Territories

Indonesia Menteng, Jakarta Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta North Bandung, West Java

Israel Tel Aviv

Japan Den-en-chōfu, Ōta, Tokyo

Pakistan Model Town, Lahore

Russia Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast

Singapore Singapore

Vietnam Da Lat

Europe

Czech Republic Zlín

Finland Käpylä Kauniainen Tapiola

France Garden City, Suresnes, designed by Alexandre Maistrasse, Julien Quoniam, and Félix Dumail Garden City (in French), Stains, designed by Eugène Gonnot and Georges Albenque Garden City (in French), Pré-Saint-Gervais, designed by Félix Dumail

Germany Frohnau, Berlin Gartenstadt (in German), Mannheim Hellerau, Dresden

Hungary Wekerle estate, Budapest

Ireland Marino, Dublin

Italy Città Giardino Aniene (later Monte Sacro), Rome Garbatella, Rome

Latvia Mežaparks, Riga

Lithuania Žaliakalnis, Kaunas

Netherlands Tuindorp Vreewijk, Rotterdam Tuindorp 't Lansink, Hengelo Tuindorp Oostzaan, Amsterdam Tuindorp Watergraafsmeer, Amsterdam

Norway Ullevål Hageby

Poland Giszowiec, Katowice Jelonki, Warsaw Konstancin-Jeziorna Milanówek Młociny, Warsaw Podkowa Leśna Radom Sępolno, Wrocław Służew, Warsaw

Portugal Encarnação, Lisbon

Russia Zelenograd, Moscow

Slovakia Svit

Slovenia Velenje

Spain Covaresa, Valladolid

United Kingdom

England Bedford Park, London Bournville Village, Birmingham Brentham Garden Suburb, London Ebbsfleet Garden City, London Hampstead Garden Suburb, London Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire Manor, Sheffield, South Yorkshire Moor Pool, Birmingham Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire Penkhull Garden Village, Stoke-on-Trent St Helier, London Telford, Shropshire The Garden Village, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire Wythenshawe, Manchester

Scotland Glenrothes, Fife Rosyth, Fife

Wales Glyn Cory Garden Village (now Wyndham Park), Vale of Glamorgan Kinmel Bay, Conwy

North America

Canada Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador (1905) Prince Rupert, British Columbia (1910) Town of Mount Royal, Quebec (1912) Gardenvale Neighbourhood, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, (ca. 1918) Kapuskasing, Ontario (1921) Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador (1923) Cité-jardin du Tricentenaire (Tricentennial Garden-City), Montreal, Quebec (1940–1947), Kitimat, British Columbia (1951)

United States Augusta, Georgia (1900) Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, New York (start date 1908) Jackson Heights, New York City Forest Hills, Boston (1911) Park Circle, North Charleston, South Carolina (ca. 1912) Narbrook Park, Narberth, Pennsylvania (c. 1915) Fairview, Camden, New Jersey (1918) Mariemont, Ohio (1923) Sunnyside Gardens Historic District, Queens, New York City, New York (1920s) Radburn, New Jersey (1929) Three New Deal Greenbelt communities: Greenbelt, Maryland (1935) Greenhills, Ohio (1930s) Greendale, Wisconsin (1936) Chatham Village, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1930s) Wyvernwood Garden Apartments, Los Angeles, California (1939) Wilshire Village, Houston, Texas (1940, demolished 2009) Baldwin Hills Village, Los Angeles, California (1941) Epcot, Bay Lake, Florida (1960s) Village Homes, Davis, California (1960s) Reston, Virginia (1964) Paloma Del Sol, Temecula, California (1992)

Oceania

Australia Haberfield, New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales (1901) Daceyville (Dacey Garden Suburb), New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales (1912) Rosebery, Sydney, New South Wales (1912) Colonel Light Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia (1915) Garden City, Victoria, in inner bayside Melbourne, Victoria (1926) Peter Lalor Housing Estate, Lalor, Victoria The Sunshine Estate, Sunshine, Victoria Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory (1913) Wundowie, Western Australia (1947)

New Zealand Christchurch, Canterbury

South America

Argentina Ciudad Jardín Lomas del Palomar, Buenos Aires

Brazil Cianorte Goiânia Jardins, São Paulo Maringá

Chile Providencia Viña del Mar

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with List of garden cities

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what List of garden cities claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to List of garden cities before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about List of garden cities ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of List of garden cities

In research: List of garden cities appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses List of garden cities in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: List of garden cities is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1898 introductions, Architecture related to utopias, Garden suburbs, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for List of garden cities outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does List of garden cities matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study List of garden cities?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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