The 1920 book The Garden Cities: Socio-Political Sketches is an important source for understanding the concept of garden cities, which gained popularity in the early XX century. This concept, proposed by British urbanist Ebenizer Howard, envisioned the creation of cities that combine the benefits of urban and rural life, providing a healthy environment for living and working. The book examines the social and political aspects of the creation of such cities, analyzes examples of the implementation of this idea in different countries, and discusses the possibility of introducing the concept of garden cities in the society of the time. In the 1920s, the idea of garden cities gained popularity in the Soviet Union, particularly in Ukraine. It was planned to create cities such as Greater Zaporizhzhia, which was to become a "garden city" with separate districts connected with each other, without a clear center and surroundings. Each district had administrative offices, theatres, cinemas, libraries, hospitals, parks and stadiums. However, in the late 1920s, the concept of Bridge gardens was criticized and recognized as "bourgeois". In the early 1930s, it was replaced by new approaches to the organization of living space that corresponded to socialist ideals. So the book "The City-Sad": Social and Political Essays" in 1920 gives a deep analysis of the concept of city-positions and their impact on urban urban urban urban development in the early XX and also reflects social and political debate at the time about the optimal organization of urban space.