LEADER 03934nam 2200601 450 001 9910796026403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0614-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501706141 035 $a(CKB)3780000000105396 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4737191 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001660797 035 $a(OCoLC)962412814 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53830 035 $a(DE-B1597)478707 035 $a(OCoLC)1007224653 035 $a(OCoLC)979911530 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501706141 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4737191 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11296559 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL969166 035 $a(EXLCZ)993780000000105396 100 $a20161118h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCommunity architect $ethe life and vision of Clarence S. Stein /$fKristin E. Larsen 210 1$aIthaca, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (361 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a1-5017-0669-1 311 $a1-5017-0246-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Garden City Idea -- $t2. Early Years And Architectural Training -- $t3. A Thinkers' Network and the City Housing Corporation -- $t4. The Architect as Houser -- $t5. The Radburn Idea -- $t6. The Regional City and Town Planning -- $t7. International Initiatives and Building a Legacy -- $tList of Abbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aClarence S. Stein (1882-1975) was an architect, housing visionary, regionalist, policymaker, and colleague of some of the most influential public figures of the early to mid-twentieth century, including Lewis Mumford and Benton MacKaye. Kristin E. Larsen's biography of Stein comprehensively examines his built and unbuilt projects and his intellectual legacy as a proponent of the "garden city" for a modern age. This examination of Stein's life and legacy focuses on four critical themes: his collaborative ethic in envisioning policy, design, and development solutions; promotion and implementation of "investment housing;" his revolutionary approach to community design, as epitomized in the Radburn Idea; and his advocacy of communitarian regionalism. His cutting-edge projects such as Sunnyside Gardens in New York City; Baldwin Hills Village in Los Angeles; and Radburn, New Jersey, his "town for the motor age," continue to inspire community designers and planners in the United States and around the world.Stein was among the first architects to integrate new design solutions and support facilities into large-scale projects intended primarily to house working-class people, and he was a cofounder of the Regional Planning Association of America. As a planner, designer, and, at times, financier of new housing developments, Stein wrestled with the challenges of creating what today we would term "livable," "walkable," and "green" communities during the ascendency of the automobile. He managed these challenges by partnering private capital with government funding, as well as by collaborating with colleagues in planning, architecture, real estate, and politics. 606 $aArchitects$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aCity planners$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aGarden cities$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aArchitects 615 0$aCity planners 615 0$aGarden cities$xHistory. 676 $a720.92 700 $aLarsen$b Kristin E.$f1962-$01491089 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796026403321 996 $aCommunity architect$93712677 997 $aUNINA