 The Neighbourhood Unit Concept and the Shaping of Land Planning in the United States 1912-1968Jason Brody Journal of Urban Design, 2013, vol. 18, issue 3, 340-362 Abstract: Although one of the more well-known concepts in planning, both planning scholars and professional communities such as the New Urbanism have neglected the neighbourhood unit concept's historic influence in shaping suburban land planning norms. This paper analyzes contemporaneous professional and governmental literature in order to understand the context of land planning and development during the time that the neighbourhood unit became a leading idea. Between 1912 and 1968 the neighbourhood unit concept bridged planning, design, development and policy-making communities to improve standards in the construction of residential environments by shifting the scale of development to an area as a whole. In this time period the neighbourhood unit concept shaped land planning norms, facilitated execution of policies, framed new institutions, and became associated with the changes that it helped to bring about. Date: 2013 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:cjudxx:v:18:y:2013:i:3:p:340-362 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2013.800453 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Urban Design is currently edited by Professor Taner Oc, Professor Michael Southworth, Professor Matthew Carmona and Dr Elisabete Cidre More articles in Journal of Urban Design from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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