ABSTRACT
The image of suburbia is one of independent houses sitting in spacious gardens set in exurban surroundings. The garden suburb, as it appeared in the mid nineteenth century as a development type in Britain, was inspired by several overlapping antecedents. The English landscape paradigm replaced the more formal baroque garden as the accepted landscape architectural type. The garden suburb concept was developed as an alternative to the pragmatic residential developments that were taking place on the periphery of cities. A garden suburb is usually located on the periphery of a city and linked to its center by some mode of transport. The garden suburb may originally have been a peculiarly Anglo-Saxon idea but was soon the type of development sought by people across the world as cities grew into metropolises. Individual architects have taken the garden suburb ideas in different directions.
