Abstract
Established in 1927, Canton Yuexiu Park represented an ambitious attempt by overseas-educated Chinese intellectuals to localize the ideal concept of the garden city. However, the absence of institutional support, economic foundations, and a shared consensus between the state and society ultimately pushed this scientific vision toward its antithesis. Based on extensive archival research, this study reinterprets the case of Yuexiu Park by situating it within global analytical threads in the histories of science, urban planning, and society. Focusing on the interactions between emergent popular science institutions within the garden city and traditional practices of land tenure, this study offers a glimpse into the complicated transnational encounters of the Western garden city ideal in modern Chinese cities.
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