garden suburb
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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 Desmond Coke
It would not flourish in a garden suburb.
From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke
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 Patrick Geddes
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 Desmond Coke
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