Departmental Papers (City and Regional Planning)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
October 1980
Abstract
Many intellectual streams have contributed to the ideology of the American planning movement. Radburn, a partially built, planned, New Jersey settlement, represents the influence of English garden city theories. Radburn's plan was so well designed and rationally organized that it has become a permanent resource for planners who in every generation examine and sometimes adapt it to solve contemporary problems. As a result, it has survived as testimony to the planners' vision of suburban growth. It also represents, however, a neglected promise unfulfilled because of larger currents in American culture.
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Date Posted: 19 September 2007
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Comments
Reprinted from Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 46, Issue 4, October 1980, pages 424-431.
The author, Dr. Eugenie L. Birch, asserts her right to include this material in ScholarlyCommons@Penn.