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GARDEN CITY
• Radburn is located within the borough of fair lawn, Bergen county, new jersey 12 miles
from New York city.
• Radburn is a planned community started in 1929 by the city housing corporation from
the plans developed by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright and landscape architect
Marjorie Sewell Cautley.
• The industrialization of the united states after world war I led to a dramatic growth of
cities and shift of population.
• Population shift led to severe shortage of housing and Radburn development emerged
as a solution to the problem.
• The intent was to built a community which made provisions for the complexities of
modern life while still providing open spaces and being economically viable.
• The community was intended to be a self-sufficient entity with residential,
Commercial and industrial areas each supplementing the needs of others. It is
America's first garden community serving as a worldwide example of the harmonious
blending of private area and open spaces.
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Introduction
• The total area of the city is 149 acres with 23 acres as interior parks
and four tennis courts, three baseball fields, two softball fields, two
swimming pools, and an archery plaza.
• It includes 430 single family homes, 90 row houses, 54 semi
attached houses and 93 apartment units along with shopping
centres,open spaces and other amenities.
• One of the principles that is applied is maximum radius for walking
distance from the home to the community should be 400m at most.
• Shopping areas are situated at the intersecting traffic streets on the
outside corners rather than the centre unit.
• There are extensive range of recreational activities planned for entire
community like tot lots, preschools, sports, aerobics, amateur
Principles of Radburn Planning
dramatics, library, clubroom etc.
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Factors that influenced:
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Objectives
• Decentralized
• Self-contained settlements (settlement
i.e., providing playgrounds, schools,
theaters, public buildings, stores and
religious buildings all together).
• Organized to promote environmental
considerations by conserving open space,
harnessing the auto and promoting
community life (as to give sunlight, air
and a tolerable outlook to even the
smallest and cheapest house).
Concept of a Neighborhood Unit
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Objectives
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Features:
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Concept
• SEPARATION of pedestrian and vehicular
• movement.
• SUPER BLOCK - large block surround by
main roads.
• CUL-DE-CAS - houses grouped around
small cul-de-cas and each house accessed
from main road.
• Living Room, Bedroom faced garden and
parks, service areas to ACCESS ROADS.
• Remaining Lands - PARKS AREAS.
• WALKWAYS - designed such that
pedestrians can reach social places
without crossing automobile street
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Emergence of Radburn planning Planning
• Inspired by the garden city idea, the city housing
corporation of New York acquired a vacant site in
new jersey within commuting distance of New
York city for the community of Radburn.
• The industrialization of the United States after
World War I led to a dramatic growth of the cities
duringthe 1920's.
• Population shift led to a severe housing shortage.
• In answer to the needs of "modern society",
Radburn, the "Town for the Motor Age" was
created in 1929. o It has 25000 people, 149 acres
area, 430 single houses, 90 row houses, 54 semi
attached houses, 93 apartment units.
A diagram showing the street network structure of Radburn
and its nested hierarchy. Separate pedestrian paths run
• ARCHITECT-Clarence Stein and Henry Wright.
through the green spaces between the culs-de-sac and
through the central green spine (The shaded area was not
built)
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Redburns Planning Criteria Planning
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Redburns Planning Criteria Planning
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Planning of Radburn Planning
• The street plan formed a pattern
of rectangular blocks divided into
rectangular lots that were usually
very narrow to conserve on utility
lines and very deep to conserve on
streets.
• The curvilinear design was then
revised to give some resemblance
of character to the subdivision to
subdue to deadly monotony of
parallel streets stretching to
infinity.
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Planning of Radburn Planning
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Cul-De- Sac and the Loopstreet Planning
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Cul-De- Sac and the Loopstreet Planning
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Layout
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Failures
• The design of Radburn believed that people would actively use the front
of the houses facing the greenways.
• In reality, people come and "leave" from the back of the houses and the
vehicles, not pedestrian access
• More people and children walking and playing in the little driveways and
cul- de-sacs than on the actual greenways.
• Second, the market has repeatedly shown that homeowners prefer more
personal land around their homes to living on tiny lots and sharing a large
green space in common.
• The Depression pushed the builder, City Housing Corporation, into
bankruptcy
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Applications
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Innovations
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Conclusion:
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References:-
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250231712 Returning
to Radburn
• https://www.scribd.com/document/266508336/Radburn-Town-
Planning
• https://www.townandcountryplanninginfo.com/2020/08/radburn-
concept.html