limits to the lot lines of every lot in Mariemont proper, to
accommodate 1,200 telephones.

## Radburn, Bergen County, N. J.

Established in 1929 by the City Housing Corporation. Within the corporate limits of Fairlawn Borough. Population, 1936, approximately 1,450. Site and housing planned by Henry Wright and Clarence Stein, planners and architects. Consultants, F. L. Ackerman, Robert D. Kohn, Thomas Adams, Sir Raymond Unwin, and others.

*Location.*—The site of Radburn lies between the cities of Paterson, Hackensack, and Ridgewood, N. J.,

on the right-of-way of the Erie Railroad, and 10 miles from the George Washington Bridge. The proximity to Manhattan Island, the presence of railroad facilities, low raw land costs, and favorable topography were the primary factors in the selection of the site, upon which it was intended to build a self-contained community of about 25,000 persons of moderate incomes. Fairlawn was an old rural community which included large areas of agricultural land. The site selected for Radburn provided a gently rolling area of comparatively high elevation which lent itself to good drainage, good

FIGURE 27.—As planned