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| Resettlement Administration |
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| Established under Rexford Tugwell, Roosevelt braintruster, to carry out experiments in land reform and population resettlement. This agency built the three Greenbelt towns (Greenbelt, Maryland; Greendale, Wisconsin; Greenhills, Ohio) forerunners of present day New Towns: Columbia, Maryland; Reston, Virginia; etc.) (1935) |
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| William Penn lays out in a grid pattern with five public squares to serve the populace in his “holy experiment” (1682) |
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| Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux begin planning a planned suburban community stressing rural as opposed to urban amenities. (1868) |
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| Model industrial town by George Pullman. (1880-84) |
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| First English Garden City and a stimulus to New Town movement in America (Greenbelt Towns, Columbia, etc.). (1903) |
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| Mariemont, Ohio (Cincinnati suburb) |
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| Mary Emery was its founder and benefactor; John Nolen, the planner. Some of its features (short blocks, mixture of rental and owner-occupied housing) foreshadow the contemporary New Urbanism movement. (1923) |
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| Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, New York |
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| A planned neighborhood designed by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright, is built by City Housing Corporation under Alexander Bing. (1924-28) |
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| Planned community inspired by Howard's Garden City concept and designed by Stein and Wright. A forerunner of the New Deal's Greenbelt towns. (1928) |
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| Monograph on the Neighborhood Unit |
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| Published in Volume VII of The Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs, by Clarence Perry (1929) |
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| Construction of Park Forest, Illinois, and Levittown, New York, begun. |
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| The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors establishes Virginia's first residential planned community zone, clearing the way for the creation of Reston |
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| A full-scale, self-contained New Town 18 miles from Washington, D.C. (1962) |
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| A new town situated about halfway between Washington and Baltimore, featuring some class integration and the neighborhood principle. (1963) |
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| One of the earliest examples of the New Urbanism. (Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk). Unlike most earlier planned communities, the New Urbanism emphasizes urban features -- compactness, walkability, mixed use -- and promotes a nostalgic architectural style reminiscent of the traditional urban neighborhood. The movement has links to the anti-sprawl, smart growth movement. (1984) |
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| New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon are attacked by terrorists |
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| Causes many to rethink security measures, including design changes to protect the public from future attacks. Ornamental bollards, large planters, and retractable barricades are installed around many public buildings nationwide. (2001) |
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