Author: United States. Farm Security AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Greenbelt Communities
Author: United States. Farm Security AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Radical Suburbs
Author: Amanda Kolson HurleyPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1948742373
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
“A revelation . . . will open your eyes to the wide diversity and rich history of our ongoing suburban experiment.” —Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class America’s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today’s suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing population of renters, and rising poverty. The cliche of white picket fences is well past its expiration date. The history of suburbia is equally surprising: American suburbs were once fertile ground for utopian planning, communal living, socially-conscious design, and integrated housing. We have forgotten that we built suburbs like these, such as the co-housing commune of Old Economy, Pennsylvania; a tiny-house anarchist community in Piscataway, New Jersey; a government-planned garden city in Greenbelt, Maryland; a racially integrated subdivision (before the Fair Housing Act) in Trevose, Pennsylvania; experimental Modernist enclaves in Lexington, Massachusetts; and the mixed-use, architecturally daring Reston, Virginia. Inside Radical Suburbs you will find blueprints for affordable, walkable, and integrated communities, filled with a range of environmentally sound residential options. Radical Suburbs is a history that will help us remake the future and rethink our assumptions of suburbia. “The communities Kolson Hurley chronicles are welcome reminders that any place, even a suburb, can be radical if you approach it the right way.” —NPR “Radical Suburbs overturns stereotypes about the suburbs to show that, from the beginning, those ‘little boxes’ harbored revolutionary ideas about racial and economic inclusion, communal space, and shared domestic labor. Amanda Kolson Hurley’s illuminating case studies show not just where we’ve been but where we need to go.” ―Alexandra Lange, author of The Design of Childhood
Greenbelt Towns
Author: Greenbelt, Maryland
Author: Cathy D. KnepperPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801864902
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Built in the 1930s on worn-out tobacco land between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., the planned community of Greenbelt, Maryland, was designed to provide homes for low-income families as well as jobs for its builders. In keeping with the spirit of the New Deal, the physical design of the town contributed to cooperation among its residents, and the government further encouraged cooperation by helping residents form business cooperatives and social organizations. In Greenbelt, Maryland, Cathy D. Knepper offers the first comprehensive look at this important social experiment. Knepper describes the origins of Greenbelt, the ideology of its founders, and their struggle to create a cooperative planned community in the capitalist United States. She tells how the town, saved at one point by the intervention of Eleanor Roosevelt, struggled through the McCarthy years, when it was branded "socialistic" and even "communistic." In conclusion, she provides a timely analysis of those qualities that not only helped the town survive but also served as the model for currents in urban development that have once again come into vogue in such movements as the new urbanism and traditional neighborhood development.
New Deal Utopias
Author: Natasha EganPublisher: Kehrer Verlag
ISBN: 9783868287905
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Photographs of three communities built during the Great Depression explore one of the most ambitious programs of Roosevelt's New Deal.
The Green Belt Movement
Author: Wangari MaathaiPublisher: Lantern Books
ISBN: 9781590560402
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Wangari Maathai, founder of The Green Belt Movement, tells its story including the philosophy behind it, its challenges, and objectives.
Greenbelt Towns, a Demonstration in Suburban Planning
Author: United States. Farm Security AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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New Communities
Author: United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Greenbelt Towns
Author: Randall Carl ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Federally Assisted New Communities
Author: Hugh MieldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description