Garden City, Cairo

Picture of a street in Garden City

Garden City (Arabic: جاردن سيتي) is an early-20th-century real estate development loosely based on the English garden city movement, and is today a mixed residential and administrative quarter in qism Qasr al-Nil in the West District of Cairo, Egypt.[1] It spans the east side of the Nile just south of Wust al-Balad (downtown) and the famous Midan Tahrir (Tahrir Square), and north of Old Cairo. Two main streets, Qasr al-Ayni Street on the east and the Nile Corniche on the west, delineate its eastern and western borders. Garden City is known for its quiet, upscale, and secure atmosphere. The United States, British, Italian and more Embassies are located there.[2]

Garden City neighborhood before development
Map of Garden City, 1915
  1. ^ "West District". www.cairo.gov.eg. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  2. ^ Haag, Michael. Egypt. Cairo: American University in Cairo, 2010. Print.