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The Garden City movement was very influential in France. The concept of garden city (cité jardin), was closely related to the concept of the 'workers city' (cité ouvrière). [29] All over the country settlements were established accordingly. Germany. Along with the UK, Germany was at the forefront of the Garden Cities movement, starting in ...
The localities in the following lists have been developed directly as garden cities or their development has been heavily influenced by the garden city movement.Detailed information is collected and provided by World Garden Cities, a knowledge platform created by Museum Het Schip in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Due to his success in the field of housing estates, Paul Schmitthenner was awarded in 1918 a professorship for architectural design at the Technical University of Stuttgart. His achievements also included at that time other housing estates, such as the garden cities Plaue near Brandenburg (1915-1917) and Forstfeld near Kassel (1915-1917).
During the Communist era of Czechoslovakia, construction of large housing estates (Czech: sídliště, Slovak: sídlisko) was an important part of building plans in the country, as the government wanted to provide large quantities of fast and affordable housing for all people, [12] as well as to slash costs by employing uniform designs over the ...
The wide part of the river between Khortytsia and the city is known as the New Dnieper, and the narrower part between Khortytsia and the suburbs on the right bank of the river is known as the Old Dnieper. [7] The New Dnieper was crossed by a three-arch two-tier bridge. Each of the arches spans 140 m (460 ft).
Garden City station (disambiguation), stations of the name; Knowle West, Bristol, England, built as a council housing estate constructed on garden city principles; Kuala Kubu Bharu, Selangor, Malaysia; the first garden township in Asia; Meadowridge, a suburb that is the second garden city in Cape Town, South Africa
By sea Ukraine borders with Romania, Turkey and Russia. To the west Romania - Ukraine border stretches from the edge of its land segment across the Black Sea over the distance of 33 km, after that it is a boundary of the Ukrainian territorial waters and the Romanian Economic Zone. The Ukrainian territorial waters include the Snake Island.
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast.