Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal (Creating the North American Landscape)

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Built within the 1930s on worn-out tobacco land between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., the planned community of Greenbelt, Maryland, was once designed to supply homes for low-source of revenue families in addition to jobs for its builders. Consistent 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 have a look at this necessary social experiment. Knepper describes the origins of Greenbelt, the ideology of its founders, and their struggle to create a cooperative planned community within 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 once branded “socialistic” or even “communistic.” In conclusion, she provides a timely analysis of those qualities that not only helped the town continue to exist 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.


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