Radburn, New Jersey
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Radburn is an unincorporated community located within the borough of Fair Lawn in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
A diagram showing the street network structure of Radburn and its nested hierarchy. Separate pedestrian paths run through the green spaces between the culs-de-sac and through the central green spine (the shaded area was not built).
A Radburn cul-de-sac
The Radburn Plaza Building.
Garden city movement
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The garden city movement is a 20th-century urban planning movement that promoted satellite communities surrounding a central city, separated by green belts. These garden cities would contain proportio
Radburn, New Jersey
…and its landscape architect Marjorie Sewell Cautley aimed to incorporate modern planning principles, which were then being introduced into England's Garden Cities, following ideas advocated by urban planners Ebenezer Howard, Sir Patrick Geddes and Clarence Perry. Perry's neighborhood unit concept was well-formulated…
Ebenezer Howard's "Diagram illustrating correct principle of a city's growth"
Howard's diagram illustrating the Garden City concept
An attempt at a garden city: Zlín in Czechia (architect: František Lydie Gahura)
The Workers Academy in Kauniainen, the garden city of Finland