“In his conception of the Garden City, Howard constructed a new version of the middle landscape, closer to town than Crevecoeur’s. In Crevecoeur’s version, the middle settlements were located halfway between the city seaports and the wild woods; Howard had moved his middle landscape so that it was now placed between the city and those rural sett Crevecoeur’s ideal. The ideal middle landscape, in short, was coming closer and closer to suburbia.” (27)

(Donaldson, Scott. The Suburban Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Print.)