Greenbelt, Maryland
Subtitle: a living legacy of the New Deal
By: Cathy D. Knepper.
Contributors: Center for American Places.
Series: Creating the North American Landscape
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baltimore (Md.)
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780801864902
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Planned communities -- United States -- Case studies; Greenbelt (Md.) -- History
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "Built in the 1930s on worn-out tobacco land between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., the planned community of Greenbelt, Maryland, was designed to provide homes for low-income families as well as jobs for its builders. In keeping 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 look at this important social experiment. Knepper describes the origins of Greenbelt, the ideology of its founders, and their struggle to create a cooperative planned community in 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 branded "socialistic" and even "communistic." In conclusion, she provides a timely analysis of those qualities that not only helped the town survive 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-264) and index.
"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia and Santa Fe, New Mexico"--[Prelim. p. iii].
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgments
title: xi; label: Introduction
title: xiii; label: Maps of Greenbelt
title: 3; title: I / Greenbelt's Founding; label: 1
title: Building a Planned Community
pagenum: 13; label: 2
title: Creating a Cooperative Community
pagenum: 40; title: II / Change and Continuity; label: 3
title: The War Years
pagenum: 61; label: 4
title: The Government versus Greenbelt
pagenum: 79; title: III / Threats to Greenbelt's Plan and Cooperation; label: 5
title: Developers versus Greenbelt
pagenum: 121; label: 6
title: Overcoming Difficulties in Cooperation
pagenum: 161; title: IV / A Town for the Ages; label: 7
title: The Persistence of the Greenbelt Idea
pagenum: 181; label: 8
title: Greenbelt Today and Tomorrow
pagenum: 209; label: Appendix
title: 243; label: Notes
title: 245; label: Bibliographical Essay
title: 261; label: Index
title: 267