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TOWN COUNTRY
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An Analysis
• Land of 3822 acres
• Reserved Green belt- 1300 acres
• Designed for a maximum of 35000 population
• In 30 years – developed with 15000 population & 150 shops, industries.
An Analysis
.• Land of 2378 acres
• Designed for a maximum of 40000
population
• In 15 years – developed with 10000
population & 50 shops, industries.
Welwyn Garden City- Arrangement from top.
• Streets are designed so as
to give the concept of a
Neighborhood unit.
• Personalization of Homes in
Welwyn with varying roofline,
texture and composition for
each house.
RADBURN, NEW JERSEY
• Radburn was planned by architects Clarence Stein and Henry Wright in 1928.
• 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.
• Radburn was designed to occupy one square mile of land and house some
25,000 residents.
• However, the Great Depression limited the development to only 149 acres.
• Radburn created a unique alternative to the conventional suburban
development through the use of cul-de-sacs, interior parklands, and cluster
housing.
• Although Radburn is smaller than planned, it still plays a very important role
in the history of urban planning.
• The Regional Planning Association of America (RPAA) used Radburn as a
garden city experiment.
RADBURN CONSISTS OF-
• Residential areas
• 149 acres of interior parks,
• Walkways.
• 2 swimming pools,
• 4 tennis courts,
• 2 playgrounds,
• Archery plaza and a school,
• 2 outdoor basketball courts
• A community center, which houses administrative
offices, library, gymnasium, clubroom and service
and maintenance areas.
ELEMENTS OF THE RADBURN CITY
• Park as backbone of the neighborhood.
• Specialized Highway system, Complete separation of vehicular and pedestrian
traffic with 21% of road areas.
• The Radburn planners achieved the separation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic
through the use of the superblocks, cul-de-sacs, and pedestrian-only pathways.
• Through the use of the superblock, houses in Radburn were uniquely designed
to have two fronts.
• The ‘back side’ of the house, what we would normally consider the front side,
faced the culs-de-sac and parking.
• The kitchen was normally placed in the back to provide visitors a place to enter
the house.
• The ‘front side’ of the house faced towards the green spaces or parks
encouraging pedestrian traffic.
• Since automobiles were given limited access to the ‘backs’ of the houses, the
‘fronts’ of the house were relatively quiet, therefore, the bedrooms were always
placed on this side of the house.
• The 2900 residents of Radburn share 23 acres of interior parks, which yield 345
square feet / person.
Housing blocks