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 88 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 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 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 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 The Green Belt Movement written by Wangari Maathai and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wangari Maathai, founder of The Green Belt Movement, tells its story including the philosophy behind it, its challenges, and objectives.
Download or read book Greenbelt written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government Competition with and Assistance to Business written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates alleged monopolistic practices of Government supported Greenbelt Consumers Services, Inc. Also examines status and activities of rural cooperatives in Western states and Hawaii. Sept. 10 and 11 hearings were held in Seattle, Wash.; Sept. 19 hearing was held in San Francisco, Calif.; Sept. 24 and 25 hearings were held in Los Angeles, Calif.
Download or read book Greenbelt written by Otis Kline Fulmer and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greenbelt Towns a Demonstration in Suburban Planning written by United States. Farm Security Administration and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Government Development Policies and the Greenbelt 1980 2000 written by Dan Marks and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greenbelt written by Jill Parsons St John and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greenbelt is a planned community built in 1937 as part of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. One of three green towns established during the Great Depression, the project put struggling Americans to work, provided low-income housing in the Washington, DC, region, and was a bold experiment in town planning and cooperative living. Its first residents enjoyed modern homes, schools, a pool, a library, and a town center complete with cooperative businesses and a movie theater--all within walking distance and in a utopian parklike setting. Despite nearly doubling in size to accommodate World War II-era housing and steady growth through the second half of the 20th century, Greenbelt's original streamlined architecture, ample green space, and innovative design have been preserved and recognized as a National Historic Landmark. After 75 years, the city continues to thrive as it looks towards sustainability and the future.
Download or read book The Government at Your Service written by Archibald Thomas Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Best laid Plans written by Julie D. Turner and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1935 the United States government embarked on a New Deal program to construct new suburban towns for the working class. Under the direction of the Resettlement Administration, teams of architects, engineers, and city planners, along with thousands of workers, brought three such communities to life: Greenbelt, Maryland; Greendale, Wisconsin; and Greenhills, Ohio. Designers, planners, and other experts brought their own ideas and goals into the project. We can see now, in hindsight, that the program was virtually doomed to fail from the outset. It suffered under the burden of too many competing goals: maximum job creation at minimal cost, exquisite town planning that would provide modest residences for low-income families, progressive innovation that would serve to honor and reinforce traditional American values. In addition to these opposing goals, the Greenbelt project faced the derision of conservative politicians and members of the media who vented their hostility toward FDR and the New Deal. Yet the Greenbelt program succeeded as well, providing new homes in well-planned communities that continue to welcome residents. The towns may represent an unrealistic dream, but they show an imagined way of American life that continues to appeal, that hints at what might have been possible"--
Download or read book The Body at Risk written by Carol Squiers and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing is the first book to explore the ways that photojournalists and social documentarians have conceptualized the human subject as a site of both good and ill health. The volume looks at photographs depicting child laborers; Depression-era health programs; general medical care in the southern United States at mid-century; people with HIV, AIDS, and polio, along with their caretakers and the health workers who advocate for them; environmental pollution; physical and psychological injuries received during warfare; domestic violence; and emergency care in the modern urban hospital. It brings together ten significant bodies of photographs made over the past one hundred years to show how human health topics have been represented for the general public and how the emphasis on health has shifted; how photography has been used to present and promote certain points of view about health and the social circumstances that affect it, both positively and negatively; and how photography has helped shape public knowledge of and opinion about health care and some of the events and circumstances that engender it.
Download or read book Spinoff written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Government of Associations written by William A. Glaser and published by [Totowa, N.J.] : Bedminster Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
