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ANNE EDWARDS Radburn...
...public lecture on "Site Planning for Low-cost Housing" will be given at the Harvard University School of City Planning this morning at 11 o'clock, by Henry Wright, of New York, N., Y., noted architect who assisted in the development of the model town of Radburn N. J., and the Buhl Foundation Housing Project of Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Wright holds the opinion that row houses in small units are preferable to struggle family houses for low-cost housing. He was in charge of the site planning of Radburn, the so-called "New Town for the Motor...
December 3: Henry Wright. "Site Planning for Low-cost Housing." Mr. Wright is an architect and town planner. Was concerned with the development of Radburn, N. J., the new town built by the New York City Housing Corporation as a model town for the automobile age, and with the development of the Buhl Foundation housing project in Pittsburgh...
...Institute was to study what Dr. Ely calls the "dynamic problems" of the land; to find more of them. Dr. Ely moved it to Chicago in 1925. Last winter he brought it to New York which is, to him, "a laboratory for experiments on a large scale." In Radburn, N. J., he now lives in a model housing development which he planned for John D. Rockefeller Jr. Dr. Ely this spring in Manhattan held seminars in land economics, found enough interest in them to justify the school. For backing he went to Owen D. Young, John W. Davis. Frank...
...Hillside development, for which ground was to be broken instanter, will provide 5,378 rooms for 1,581 families at an average of $11 per room per month. Designed by Architect Clarence S. Stein, who built a famed model colony at Radburn, N. J., the Hillside community's buildings occupy only 34% of their 697,000 sq. ft. site. There is a 2½-acre playground. Dead-end streets, footpaths and an underpass to the school across an arterial highway from the development safeguard children. Most of the buildings will be four-story walk-ups. Some will...