Letchworth Garden City

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garden city planned town town

Letchworth Garden City is a pioneering planned town in Hertfordshire, England, widely regarded as the world’s first garden city and a key model for early 20th-century urban planning.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	garden city ⓘ planned town ⓘ town ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
designedBy	Barry Parker ⓘ Raymond Unwin ⓘ
founder	Ebenezer Howard ⓘ
governedBy	North Hertfordshire district ⓘ surface form: North Hertfordshire District Council
hasCharacteristic	co-partnership housing model ⓘ green belts and open spaces ⓘ integration of green space and housing ⓘ low-density development ⓘ planned street layout ⓘ separation of industry and housing ⓘ
hasDialCode	01462 ⓘ
hasFeature	architecturally unified housing estates ⓘ civic and cultural facilities in town centre ⓘ extensive public parks ⓘ industrial areas planned away from housing ⓘ tree-lined avenues ⓘ
hasHeritageStatus	important site in history of town planning ⓘ
hasLandmark	Broadway Gardens ⓘ First Garden City Heritage Museum ⓘ Howard Park and Gardens ⓘ Spirella Building ⓘ
hasPostcodeArea	SG ⓘ
hasTransport	Letchworth Garden City railway station ⓘ
influenced	British New Towns movement ⓘ surface form: British new towns movement Welwyn Garden City ⓘ international garden city developments ⓘ
inspiredBy	Garden city movement ⓘ surface form: garden city movement
locatedIn	East of England ⓘ England ⓘ Hertfordshire NERFINISHED ⓘ
namedAfter	Ebenezer Howard’s garden city concept ⓘ
partOf	North Hertfordshire district ⓘ surface form: North Hertfordshire
regardedAs	world’s first garden city ⓘ
significance	pioneering model of early 20th-century urban planning ⓘ
timePeriod	early 20th century urban planning experiment ⓘ
urbanPlanningModelFor	garden suburbs ⓘ modern town planning ⓘ new towns ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Garden City Association → associatedWith → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

county of Hertfordshire → containsSettlement → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

subject surface form: Hertfordshire

North Hertfordshire district → hasAdministrativeCentre → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

Hertfordshire → hasGardenCity → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform → hasInfluenced → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

Hertfordshire → hasMajorTown → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

Stevenage → hasNeighbouringSettlement → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

Hitchin → hasNeighbouringTown → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

North Hertfordshire district → hasTown → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

Garden City Association → helpedDevelop → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

Garden city movement → influenced → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

Ebenezer Howard → inspired → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

Barry Parker → notableWork → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

Raymond Unwin → notableWork → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

James Lovelock → placeOfBirth → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

Welwyn Garden City → predecessorConcept → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ

Ebenezer Howard → residence → Letchworth Garden City ⓘ