Green Towns USA: A New Deal
 

Green Towns USA: A New Deal
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An investigation of three 1930s new towns planned and built by the United States government during the Depression, and how they fare today. Designed as decent, affordable housing for urban workers; families near cities, these towns were based upon the English Garden City concept of shared open land, community center, schools, and cooperative services. They were precursor to later suburban developments but they were encircled by nature preserves to provide recreation and a buffer from urban sprawl. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt played major roles in the Greentowns: Greenbelt, Maryland; Greenhills, Ohio, and Greendale, Wisconsin.