INTRODUCTION

Radburn is located within the Borough of Fair Lawn,

Bergen County, New Jersey, 12 miles from New York
City. Radburn, a planned community, was started in
1929 by the City Housing Corporation from the plans
developed by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright. The
concept of the "new town" grew out of the older
planned communities in Europe and the work of
Ebenezer Howard and Patrick Geddes. The intent
was to build a community which made provisions for
the complexities of modern life, while still providing
the amenities of open space, community service and
economic viability. 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 world wide example of the
harmonious blending of private space and open
area. Radburn provided a prototype for the new
towns to meet the requirements for contemporary
good living. The residential areas include every type
of housing unit with a wide range of cost.
 Represented many of the basic principles of planning
theory from 1930s to 1960s

Size of 149 acres, includes 430 single family homes, 90 row

houses, 54 semi-attached houses and a 93 apartment unit, as
well as a shopping center, parks and amenities.

Shopping areas are situated at intersecting traffic streets

on the outside corners rather than at the center of the unit.
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 (Note: the shaded area was not
built)
Diagram of the Radburn street pattern
showing
the cellular structure of the network and the
nested road hierarchy