What are the defining characteristics of a "garden village"? In its prospectus calling for the identification of potential garden villages, the government was careful not to elaborate too far on the underlying principles which it believed should underlie each development. As a result the 14 garden villages selected in the first round are quite different in scale and nature. However, they all share the same softer rhetoric associated with the garden city movement of the 19th century which suggests they will all aim to deliver high-quality, sustainable new communities.
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