The idea of the garden – city in Polish urban planning thought at the beginningof the 20th century

The term "garden city" is a response to the uncontrolled development of 19th – century cities. It is an idea that combines urban conveniences with the advantages of rural life. In Polish urban planning at the beginning of the 20th century, it took the form of garden cities, green neighborhoods, or cities designed for recreation. Garden cities hada particular form, and their construction principles were clearly defined by the "planner – urbanist" Ebenezer Howard. Not all of these principles were applied in Polish solutions, and only some of them replicated British solutions, yet these cities were already called garden cities at the time of their creation. The degree of implementation of the original principles in Polish urban solutions was examined using selected examples implemented in the interwar period.