Clarence Stein and the Greenbelt Towns Settling for Less

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The greenbelt town program was one of Franklin Roosevelt's most innovative and radical interventions in American city building. Its central goal was not to create better urban communities, but rather to generate jobs in a declining national economy. Fortunately, the Resettlement Administration, headed by Rexford G. Tugwell, called on architect/planner Clarence S. Stein to prepare town design guidelines and to serve as planning consultant. Although disappointed at not having direct design responsibility for one of the towns, Stein settled into an advisory role through which he greatly influenced the character and quality of these communities, especially the best known: Greenbelt, Maryland. After World War II, Stein was instrumental in preserving the towns as examples of socially and environmentally responsible community design and prototypes for a national new town policy.

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