Radburn

Thornlie, Western Australia - Crestwood Estate
... still noted for its successful implementation of the Radburn design principles ... Original Radburn architect Clarence Stein reportedly described it as the 'first perfect Radburn scheme in the world' and from 1973 to 1976 it received both national and international recognition ... Whilst the Radburn principles flavoured many other post-war developments across Australia including the Perth suburbs of City Beach and Karawara, it remains one of the few suburbs ...

Fused Grid - Terminology and History
... The creation of the Radburn pattern is attributed to Clarence Stein but has a lineage of ideas that preceded it in Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker’s work that included the use of ... scarcity of records that obscures the original rationale for the grid, the reasons for the Radburn pattern has been articulated clearly in Stein’s writings and those of his predecessors ... “Radburn” (after a place in New Jersey) now denotes a street network configuration ...

American Radburn Design For Public Housing
... The American Radburn design for public housing is a reference the civil engineering designs for public housing estates applied in the 1970s in Sydney, Australia and other places ... communities and encourage crime it has ultimately lead to efforts to 'de-Radburn' or partially demolish American Radburn designed public housing areas ... from English garden city theories which culminated in the design of the partially built Radburn, New Jersey estate ...

Henry Wright (landscape Architect) - Radburn
... Wright and Stein later collaborated on the design of the Radburn community in Fair Lawn, New Jersey ... Radburn, founded in 1929, was intended to be the "town in which people could live peacefully with the automobile-or rather in spite of it" ... Radburn was designed in such a way that thoroughfares had a specialized use main roads linking traffic at various sections, service lanes to allow direct ...

Radburn, New Jersey - Radburn As A Model
... as impediments to a lifestyle centered around the automobile led to perceptions that Radburn can serve as precedent both for New Pedestrianism and for the car-free movement ... The impact of Radburn's urban form on energy consumption for short local trips was considered in a 1970 study by John Lansing of the University of Michigan ... The study found Radburn's design to have important implications for energy conservation, recording that 47% of its residents shopped for groceries on foot, while comparable figures were 23% for Reston ...