Haster, Imperial City

[NeonKnight]

One will note from looking at the maps that while there is indeed gardens within a city (and I am most certainly not saying they did not exist), each map depicts the gardens as existing behind the row of houses. These were not the gardens of what I often see in a city map of a Front/Back/Side yards, but more of a Backyard aspect, or in the Bruges' or London maps, of enclosed within a ring of buildings.

Another good example of private gardens is this shot of a district of Naples, Italy:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=...09645&t=k&z=17
The Gardens are in the centre of a cluster of buildings. They have likely been converted to something less of a garden in modern times, but in the past would ahve likely been location of privies, and Gardens.

[Gandwarf]

One will note from looking at the maps that while there is indeed gardens within a city (and I am most certainly saying they did not exist) ...

Uh... you are confusing me. The first part of that sentence acknowledges gardens in a city, but the second seems to indicate you are denying that gardens existed?

That kind of confusion prompted me to rant about gardens in cities

I agree with both of you regarding the discussion about the layout of cities.
Also, I fully agree with the yard idea as well. They certainly weren't the yards we modern people are used to and enjoy.

Seems the discussion just died out then