Download or read book Greenbelt Maryland written by Cathy D. Knepper and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Code of the City of Greenbelt Maryland written by Greenbelt (Md.) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Development of the City of Greenbelt Maryland Its Growth Government and Politics written by Michael Fischetti and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Radical Suburbs written by Amanda Kolson Hurley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today’s suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing population of renters, and rising poverty. The cliche of white picket fences is well past its expiration date. The history of suburbia is equally surprising: American suburbs were once fertile ground for utopian planning, communal living, socially-conscious design, and integrated housing. We have forgotten that we built suburbs like these, such as the co-housing commune of Old Economy, Pennsylvania; a tiny-house anarchist community in Piscataway, New Jersey; a government-planned garden city in Greenbelt, Maryland; a racially integrated subdivision (before the Fair Housing Act) in Trevose, Pennsylvania; experimental Modernist enclaves in Lexington, Massachusetts; and the mixed-use, architecturally daring Reston, Virginia. Inside Radical Suburbs you will find blueprints for affordable, walkable, and integrated communities, filled with a range of environmentally sound residential options. Radical Suburbs is a history that will help us remake the future and rethink our assumptions of suburbia.

Download or read book Greenbelt Maryland written by John W. Severns and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Greenbelt written by Greenbelt Museum and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Deal Utopias written by Natasha Egan and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs of three communities built during the Great Depression explore one of the most ambitious programs of Roosevelt's New Deal.

Download or read book Greenbelt Maryland a Planned Community written by Thelma Marie Hanson and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Government of Greenbelt written by Christian L. Larsen and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The City of Greenbelt Maryland written by Lesley Riddle and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over forty years ago Rachel Carson wrote of the dangers of pesticides and the abuses of the commercial pesticide industry (Carson, 1962). In 2008, the United States Department of Agriculture reported U.S. farm and professional pesticide use at about 1.2 billion pounds each year (EPA, 2011). These pesticides are absorbed into soil, water, and living tissue, unable to distinguish between intended target and other non-target organisms. The full range of harm from pesticides is not entirely known but the danger posed by pesticides to nature and humans has significant scientific documentation (Balaram, 2003). The impetus to study the use of pesticides in the city of Greenbelt grew out of concerns for public and environmental health specific to the city of Greenbelt, the wider Chesapeake Bay Watershed, and the greater global community. These issues sparked the need to develop and implement polices [sic] utilizing methods that are fiscally responsible and environmentally sustainable (ISA, 2009). In my capacity as the Assistant Director of Public Works in tandem with my work in Green Mountain College's Masters of Environmental Science program, I have created, researched, and implemented all stages of this program's development and execution. I have shaped a Sustainable Land Care Policy that will require the City reduce and eliminate the use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, and I have put into action a community outreach program to promote more sustainable landscape practices.

Download or read book Budget for Fiscal Year 1978 1979 the City of Greenbelt Maryland written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Links in the Chain written by Susan L. Klaus and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Links in the Chain written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Greenbelt Maryland written by Mary Boccaccio and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Policy Plan of Land Use for Greenbelt Maryland written by Roger Willcox and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book City of Greenbelt 25th Anniversary written by Greenbelt (Md.). Silver Anniversary Committee and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Hundred Wild Things written by Owen Kelley and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone can learn to identify the trees, wildflowers, lichen, and other living things in the forest known as the "Great North Woods" of Greenbelt, Maryland. With over 200 photographs, this field guide can be your companion as you hike the forest, helping you to distinguish moss from clubmoss and black gum from black cherry. The ecological role of individual species is described, as is their history on this site. This book is full of wild shapes and colors, the forest as season, weather, and light changes.