Garden Cities may refer to:
- Cities designed using principles of the Garden city movement. The garden city movement is an approach to Urban planning that was founded in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom
- Sustainable Ecocities that are an alternative to urban sprawl. A sustainable city, ecocity or ecopolis is an entire city dedicated to minimizing the required inputs (of energy water and food and its waste output (of heat air Urban sprawl, also known as suburban sprawl, is the spreading of a city and its Suburbs over rural land at the fringe of an urban area
- Retrofitted or new Pedestrian Villages utilizing the principles of New Pedestrianism An example of this is the retrofitted Garden District in DeLand, FL, which was named in homage to Ebenezer Howard, the founder of the Garden City Movement in England. New Pedestrianism (NP is a more idealistic variation of New Urbanism in urban planning theory founded in 1999 by Michael E DeLand is the county seat of Volusia County, Florida. In 2006 the U Sir Ebenezer Howard ( 29 January 1850 – May 1 1928) was a prominent British Urban planner.
References
- Howard, Ebenezer, Garden Cities of To-Morrow, M. I. T Press, 1965 (original publication date: 1898)
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