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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.
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Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
Lee Kuan Yew, the city’s first prime minister, launched the idea of Singapore as a garden city back in 1967.
—Cnt Editors, 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
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
Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
Lee Kuan Yew, the city’s first prime minister, launched the idea of Singapore as a garden city back in 1967.
—Cnt Editors, 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
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
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“Garden city.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garden%20city. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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