New garden villages – like one on the edge of Hatfield in Hertfordshire – are being planned, and some people advocate them as a way to solve the housing crisis.

Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation is working with planners at Chengdu in Central China. Leafy Edwardian-style avenues will be the foundation of a suburb dominated by 30-storey skyscrapers ...

Founded in 1903, Letchworth Garden City was the brainchild of social reformer Ebenezer Howard, whose vision to improve lives for people by combining the best of living and working in the town and ...