garden cityn.
/ˌɡɑːdn ˈsɪti/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrdən ˌsɪdi/ Originally U.S.
1. Frequently with the and capital initials. (A name given to) any of various cities located in fertile agricultural areas or (esp. in later use) that have a large number of public parks or gardens; spec. a popular name for Chicago, with reference to the city's green spaces and agricultural surroundings (now historical).
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in North America > Chicago
garden city1838
Windy City1887
Chi1895
Chi-town1901
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town and country > [noun] > rural scene created in city
rus in urbe1728
garden city1838
greening1941
1838 Universalist & Ladies' Repository June 30 I have a maternal uncle in the pretty village of N—not fifty miles from old Yale and the garden city.
1844 Congress. Globe Jan. 57/3 The great granary of the West—the garden city..where I have the honor to reside.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 665 Savannah, in Georgia,..claiming the name of Garden City.
1924 Star (Christchurch, N.Z.) 27 Dec. 6 It has become fashionable to refer to Christchurch as the City Beautiful and the Garden City.
1985 J. A. Jackle in B. Checkoway & C. V. Patton Metrop. Midwest iv. 102 As Chicago was once the ‘Garden City’ for its emphasis on residential quality, so it can be again.
2008 Nine Spring Little is known about late nineteenth-century teams or individual players in the Garden City—another name for Chicago.
2. A town built to a plan that incorporates a large number of green spaces; (originally) such a town designed to be self-contained, having residential and industrial areas and an agricultural belt.In quot. 1870 as the name of a planned suburb incorporating ample green space.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] > other types of city
kine-burghc1225
City of Goda1382
city of refuge (alsorefute)a1425
mother city?a1425
imperial city1550
city dwelling1613
second city1621
out-city1642
garden town1835
hoard-burg1895
garden city1898
cathedral city1902
parasitopolis1927
twin city1973
arcology1985
sustainable city1986
1870 N. Y. Herald 20 Feb. 10/2 Enough of the proposed plan of laying out this future favored place of suburban abode—this Garden City, the prospective name given it—has been developed to give an idea of its grand and unsurpassed beauty when everything shall have been completed.]
1898 E. Howard To-morrow i. 13 Garden City, the Town-country magnet, which it is intended to build.
1903 Times 29 Aug. 4/5 The Garden City Pioneer Company (Limited) has acquired about 4,000 acres of land near Hitchin on which to build the first garden city.
1966 W. L. Creese (title) The search for environment. The garden city: before and after.
1986 A. Ravetz Govt. of Space ii. 32 The garden city campaign culminated in the New Towns Act of 1946.
2011 Daily Tel. 30 Nov. 7/1 Local authorities..have been invited to tender proposals for large developments, which could include garden cities or village extensions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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