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Radburn city planning
Radburn City Planning was an early planned community developed in Fair Lawn, New Jersey in 1929. It was designed by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright and aimed to separate pedestrian and vehicular traffic through the use of cul-de-sacs and green spaces. Some key features included a hierarchical road system, superblocks with houses facing interior parks rather than roads, and an emphasis on pedestrian accessibility and open spaces. However, the community faced some challenges and was only partially built before the Great Depression, with residents preferring more private land over common areas.
Radburn city planning
- 1. Radburn City Planning AamlanSaswat Mishra 2017 BARC 013
- 2. Where? Fair Lawn, Bergen Country, New Jersey, United States Just 12miles from New York!
- 3. About Radburn Clarence Stein and Henry Wright The Beginning… Startedin 1929 Simpler Modern Life Open Spaces, Community Service and economic Viability Zones supplement ing each other The Sustainability.. Self- sufficient America’s first Garden city! The Specialty… Prototype of Contemporary Good living The Intent…
- 4. The Concept Emerges Populationshift led to severe housing shortage Dynamic Growth of cities after World War I A town for the Motor Age needed Garden City concept yet to be implemented in USA
- 5. Influencing Factors: Rapid industrialization Migration Over-populationand housing shortage Dynamic growth of cities
- 6. Concepts Hierarchical Road system Lesstraffic entered the community Least traffic on Housing streets Pedestrian and Vehicular movement segregated Houses built on Superblocks of land with back to roads and front to green areas Houses opened to a car access cul-de-sac Ample Parks and Green Areas Street patterns Movement Movement segregation Cul-De-Sacs Super Blocks Parks and green Areas
- 7. Prominent concepts Cul-De-Sacs Eliminate Trafficin a positive manner Terminate in a circle (max 450 feet) Accelerated Traffic speeds Superblocks Blocks surrounded by roads Houses around Cul-De-Sacs Pedestrian overpass/underpass for links System for best pedestrian accessibility
- 8. Features of Radburn City Hierarchical transportation systems Cul-de-sacs Footpath systemsUnderpasses Shopping center Ideal size of 30,000 people Homogeneity Large-scale development Clustered superblock Mixed-use Interior park Super Blocks Specialized Highway system Complete separation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic Parks as backbone of neighborhood Turned around houses
- 9. HENRY WRIGHT’S SIX PLANKS FOR HOUSING PLATFORM Plansimply but comprehensively Ample sites in right places for community use Seclude factories and Industrial buildings Delivery, waste collection and car parking with minimum confusion Private-Public land relation and Individual-Group building relation House occupancy as per cost and service
- 10. Spaces and Roads 149Acres 430 Single Houses 90 Row Houses 54 Semi Attached Houses 93 Apartment Units Maximum radius for walking distance from the home to the community should be 400m at most. Grid iron pattern- street plan formed rectangular blocks with ROW up to 54-64 feet to allow parking Pedestrian pavement of 36 feet width and parking allowed on only one side of streets
- 11. Houses and Parks Houseswith Kitchen and garage facing the roads and living and bed-rooms facing Gardens Un-interrupted pedestrian access to community open spaces (23 acres of Interior parks and shopping plaza) Expenditure saved in roads and public spaces utilized in park development Less street area needed for same frontage provision with smaller utility line requirements
- 12. Failures: People come andleave from back of the house and not pedestrian access Home owners prefer larger personal land rather than large green common spaces Only a small portion of it executed before the great depression hit