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Garden cities

July 2024

  • An aerial view of homes and in Enfield, north London

    Sustainability and green spaces should be housing priorities

    Letters: Neil Blackshaw on the importance of infrastructure, Kate Ashbrook on how to secure green space, and Debbie Cameron on her treasured family garden

September 2023

  • People walk along a street lined with cherry blossom trees in Paris.

    Weatherwatch
    Parks and gardens hold key to cooling overheated cities

    Nature in urban settings can have huge impact on temperature and human behaviour, study shows

July 2023

  • Designer Zoe Claymore (R) and the Wildlife Trusts' CEO Craig Bennett (L)

    ‘Let them garden’: call for landlords to help tenants and wildlife flourish

    Garden designer says landlords have a responsibility to let renters improve outdoor space and help environment

October 2021

  • Vegetation sprouts from the Bosco Verticale in Milan. ‘Gangsta garden’ in LA. A peregrine falcon in flight near St Paul’s Cathedral.

    The age of extinction
    10 great city projects for nature – from vertical forests to a ‘gangsta garden’

    Around the world, architects, activists and communities are finding ways to bring wildlife into urban areas

September 2021

  • Marie-Louise Agius surrounded by wild flowers next to beehive

    The age of extinction
    Chelsea flower show: a garden with a green message for the green-fingered

    RHS entry includes old concrete and drainpipes alongside the blooms to highlight the importance of environmentally friendly gardening

August 2021

  • Rowan Moore

    Notebook
    How to make London greener: stick up a tower block with a roof garden

    Rowan Moore
    The idea may not win the Garden Museum’s competition but, as a parody, it deserves a prize

June 2021

  • Dorothy Cuninghame in 1946

    Other lives
    Dorothy Cuninghame obituary

    Other Lives: Secretary and housewife who gave medical help to displaced people in Germany after the second world war

December 2019

  • a composting toilet on an ecological farm.

    The no-flush movement: the unexpected rise of the composting toilet

    We squander masses of clean water flushing away our own waste instead of using it as fertiliser. But a lavatorial eco revolution has now begun

September 2019

  • Willow Road in Bournville

    George Cadbury’s great idea lives on at Bournville

    Letters: Antony Barlow on how his grandfather, as leader of the Bournville Village Trust, helped to create a paradigm for the garden city concept

August 2018

  • Houses in Letchworth Garden City

    Home truths about housing supply and demand

    Readers respond to calls for policies aimed at tackling homelessness and the high cost of housing

August 2017

  • Traffic on a motorway

    With political will, we could easily solve our transport problems

    Letters: Readers share their thoughts on electricity generation, cars, cycling, trains and garden cities

July 2017

  • Bournville street scene

    Garden villages sound lovely, but they need careful management

    Get residents involved, look after open spaces, mix up all kinds of homes and have strict rules about alterations – here’s what we’ve done in Bournville

May 2017

  • 015 Skygarden Seoul ©Ossip

    Resilient cities
    A garden bridge that works: how Seoul succeeded where London failed

    Seoul’s ambitious Skygarden – which revives a disused elevated 1970s highway with 24,000 plants – is opening

February 2017

  • Letchworth Garden City

    To solve the housing crisis we need new ideas, not garden cities

    Frances Holliss
    New models of living and working make more sense than chasing nostalgic utopian visions of garden cities

January 2017

  • New homes being built

    The Guardian view on the housing crisis: right to rent

    Editorial: For too long councils have been unable to build for rent. The housing white paper should bring them in from the cold

November 2016

  • If This Were to Be Lost 2016 painted birch plywood The Green Backyard Peterborough

    Right to the city
    Saving Peterborough’s Green Backyard: 'It's a point of stillness in a crazy world'

    A derelict site in Peterborough’s city centre was transformed into a vibrant community garden by volunteers, yet is still under threat of redevelopment. Artist Jessie Brennan shares the voices of those defending their right to the city

May 2016

  • Pier55 New York, top, and the Garden Bridge project in London

    Garden Bridge v Pier 55: why do New York and London think so differently?

    Two cities, one designer and one strategy – to build a privately funded park above a river. If both the Garden Bridge and Pier 55 have questionable benefits and hidden public costs, why is New York so convinced when London isn’t?

April 2016

  • The 'Joyride' sculpture by Franta Belsky, in the central Stevenage shopping complex. Stevenage, Hertfordshire, new town and Lewis Hamilton's home town.

    ‘People think of new towns as concrete jungles, but I love the place of my birth’

    Seventy years on, could the original idea for new towns such as Stevenage and Milton Keynes help solve todays’ housing crisis?

March 2016

  • The Black Country living museum in Dudley.

    Black Country seeks £6bn rebirth as UK’s largest garden city

  • Simon Jenkins

    Healthy towns alone won’t cure the ills of urban planning

    Simon Jenkins
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