3 Aug 1929 Jahr - Radburn, NJ - Town for the Motor Age - RPAA

Beschreibung:

- Intended as full realization of Howard's Garden City, but had to wrangle with the auto.
- Wanted the design to ensure auto and pedestrian safety - cars at the time were causing a lot of deaths due to lack of road regulations, led to full separation of pedestrian with auto traffic
- Wanted work and residence combined in non-urban setting - but was hard to get a lot of companies or factories to actually put jobs there
- Wanted to develop an urban form that would engender social and civic interactions because the affluent were now segregated in their cars

Radburn was lauded as the first scientific effort to establish community designed to minimize auto accidents. At that time scientific method had become a powerful idea - using analysis, breaking community down into separate components to understand it better and reassemble to achieve goals - but often the invisible, social elements get lost in the decomposition of problems.
The city planning movement tried to make city planning an exact science - based on analysis of factual information and statistical data, recognized the connection to other fields, and thought that the best plan (and there would be only one) will result from logical process.

created cul-de-sacs, and hierarchy / specialization of streets

It used parks as the backbone and created residential super blocks with houses facing the parks.

It was built just before the stock market crash.
Although the performance of the goals were never evaluated, Sunnyside and Radburn became the model for suburban development in the 20c century. Except that later developers took out the common green space because it was not profit making.

In 1934 the federal government put in place the National Housing Act, and used Radburn as a national model

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