Preamble
The garden city idea has spread rapidly since the beginning of the 20th century. Today, there are garden cities all over the western world - created at different times, under different conditions, in different structural forms and with different goals and aspirations. Even in the recent past and in the present, initiatives, architects and urban planners are opting for the garden city as a model in their search for sustainable settlement models.
Despite the original cross-country and cross-system approach of the fathers and mothers of the garden city movement, there is no network today that could serve these settlements and their inhabitants to exchange ideas. The 'International Garden Cities and Town Planning Association' founded by Ebenezer Howard in 1913 (today: International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) based in The Hague) pursues other goals.