Suburban Design

Question 1

Answer 1

Forest Hills Gardens, NY, 1911 - first garden city in U.S.
• Russell Sage Foundation, dev
• Grovesnor Atterbury, arch
• Olmsted Bros., land arch
• Covenants, Codes, and Restrictions

Dutch colonial style, institutionalized discrimination based on ethnicity and religion but class progressive

Question 2

Answer 2

Riverside, Illinois, 1868
• Riverside Improvement Company, developer
• Olmsted & Vaux, designers

10 miles on rail from Chicago

Sinous, instead of dominated by Chicago grid, curves represent leisure and contemplation, no fences along property lines, first time parkway green strip was used

Question 3

Answer 3

Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, NY, 1929-28
• City Housing Corporation, dev <–not for profit
• Henry Wright & Clarence Stein, planner & arch
• Marjorie Sewell Cautley, land arch

Open to more classes, design based on Manhattan grid

“super blocks” with shared public but really semi-private parks in center

Question 4

Answer 4

Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, NY, 1929-28
• City Housing Corporation, dev
• Henry Wright & Clarence Stein, planner & arch
• Marjorie Sewell Cautley, land arch

Question 5

Answer 5

Llewellyn Park

Orange, N.J.

1853

Llewellyn Haskell and A.J. Davis

Part of perfectionist movement progressive development - bought 40 acre parcel. Exclusive with a gate but no interior fencing to create a seamless composition, much like an English estate with pastoral aesthetic.

Question 6

Answer 6

Forest Hills

Queens, NY

1911

Question 7

Answer 7

Letchworth, England, 30 miles N of London

1904

First Garden City

Parker & Unwin

speculative development, not wholly successful (no industry)

Question 8

Answer 8

Radburn N.J.

1927-29

Wright, Stein & Cautley - same as Sunnyside

interesting circulation - new town for autombile with clear motorways with separate pedestrian circulation systems

Kitchens overlook auto circ, living overlooks pedestrian circ.

Question 9

Answer 9

Crestwood Hills

Brentwood, L.A.

1946

Jones, Contoni & Eckbo

Pent up demand for housing post WWII

steep topography, 835 acres

common amenties: pool, equestrian, daycare, houses humble

utopian ideal, soft on covenants (all races allowed!) so banks wouldn’t fund

Question 10

Answer 10

Eichler Homes

California

1949-74

Anshen & Allen, Oakland, Jones & Emmons

11,000 homes in 25 years

modern architecture, central atriums, open flow of space, post-beam arch to break indoor/outdoor demarcation

Lawn=American Dream