Main entry:

Knepper, Cathy D.

Title & Author:

Greenbelt, Maryland : a living legacy of the New Deal / Cathy D. Knepper.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Description:

xvii, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Notes:
"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia and Santa Fe, New Mexico"--[Prelim. p. iii].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-264) and index.
Greenbelt's Founding -- Building a Planned Community -- Creating a Cooperative Community -- Change and Continuity -- The War Years -- The Government versus Greenbelt -- Threats to Greenbelt's Plan and Cooperation -- Developers versus Greenbelt -- Overcoming Difficulties in Cooperation -- A Town for the Ages -- The Persistence of the Greenbelt Idea -- Greenbelt Today and Tomorrow.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801864909 (alk. paper)
9780801864902 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Planned communities United States Case studies.
Collectivités nouvelles États-Unis Études de cas.
Planned communities
PLANNING.
HISTORIES.
Greenbelt (Md.) History.
Greenbelt (Mar.) Histoire.
Maryland Greenbelt
United States
MARYLAND.
UNITED STATES.

Form/genre:

Case studies.
History
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Center for American Places.
Creating the North American landscape.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218816
Call No.: F189.G7 K5 2001
Status: Available