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Greenbelt Towns Revisited

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Author : Albert Mayer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968

Greenbelt Towns Revisited written by Albert Mayer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with City planning categories.

Greenbelt Maryland

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Author : Cathy D. Knepper
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2001

Greenbelt Maryland written by Cathy D. Knepper and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Architecture categories.

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.