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garden suburb

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noun

  1. a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city

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The Bedford Park Society said that Bedford Park, near Turnham Green station in west London, was the world's first garden suburb, and the inspiration for the garden cities that followed.

From BBC Jan. 11, 2013

Everything in the little garden suburb home—for Hubert, capitulating to Kenneth Boyd all along the whole line, had settled out at Hampstead—every smallest detail was ordered to one end: the Work.

From Helena Brett's Career by Coke, Desmond

It's rather a pity, so soon after the boy was born... just as you were expecting a rise, too, and we were going to move into that nice cottage in the garden suburb.

From The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War by Caine, Hall, Sir

The further proposal is to acquire an estate surrounding that open space which has now been secured for ever to the people, and to use this extension to make what is called a "garden suburb."

From Civics: as Applied Sociology by Geddes, Patrick

To a girl almost bursting with the ashamed desire for self-development a garden suburb must be Paradise indeed.

From Helena Brett's Career by Coke, Desmond

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