Revisiting Transnational Garden City Histories: From the North-West to the South-East

Liora Bigon; Oyewale Oyeleye

doi:10.1177/00219096251319260

Revisiting Transnational Garden City Histories: From the North-West to the South-East

Liora Bigon
, Oyewale Oyeleye

School of Architecture

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Embracing a critical retrospective view, this article examines the ideological and actual developments of Garden City concepts in the northern (North-West) and southern (South-East) hemispheres. It elaborates on the transnational histories and contemporary manifestations of the Garden City phenomenon in a variety of urban planning cultures, with a particular emphasis on Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa. In an effort to de-Eurocentrize the research literature through a wide extra-European historiographic emphasis, the article broadly characterizes stylistic implementations on a regional basis. It also explores the dissemination of Garden City terminology within the current urban discourse of social and environmental sustainability.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1522-1543
Number of pages	22
Journal	Journal of Asian and African Studies
Volume	61
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/00219096251319260
State	Published - Mar 2026

Keywords

(post-)colonial Africa
Asia
Garden cities
South America
global North-West
sustainable cities

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