Analyzing the Multifunctional Roles of Modern Garden Cities and Policy Directions†

This study aims to identify the urban challenges that garden cities must address in the contemporary context, where government agencies are promoting fragmented and function-oriented garden city policies. Furthermore, it seeks to analyze the multifunctional roles that garden cities must fulfill to effectively tackle these challenges. To achieve this, a perception survey was conducted with 89 experts, and the collected data were analyzed using statistical techniques, including <italic>t</italic>-tests, analytic hierarchy process (AHP), importance-performance analysis (IPA), and multiple regression analysis. The key findings of this study are as follows. First, garden cities are recognized as an effective urban model for addressing environmental issues and are expected to play a crucial role in mitigating environmental challenges, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. In particular, the increasing frequency of climate-induced extreme weather events was identified as the urban issue most closely related to garden cities. Second, experts highlighted that the ‘nature’ attribute should be the most critical factor in garden city policy formulation. This suggests that the development of garden city policies should prioritize the integration of eco-friendly green infrastructure that is closely linked to citizens