: a planned residential community with park and planted areas
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThe 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 Welwyn Garden City was the second garden city to be built in Britain, after Letchworth, a few miles to the north in Hertfordshire.The Economist, 17 Apr. 2021 Known as Oregon’s garden city or the city by the falls, Silverton is about 45 miles from Portland.USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2017
Word History
First Known Use
1898, in the meaning defined above
Geographical Definition
Garden City
geographical name
1
city on the Arkansas River in western Kansas population 26,658
2
city west of Detroit in southeastern Michigan population 27,692