Radburn design housing (also called Radburn housing, Radburn design, Radburn principle, or Radburn concept) is a concept for planned urban settlements and housing estates, based upon a design that was originally used in the community of Radburn within Fair Lawn, New Jersey, United States. The objective of the planners Clarence Stein and Henry Wright in the late 1920s was to accommodate the increasing car traffic of the time while keeping it separate from pedestrian spaces and to prevent accidents.
Some of the guidelines for the residential layout were:
- Streets are classified as main connecting roads, collector roads and residential streets.
- Different means of transport are kept separate.
- Living streets mostly take the form of cul-de-sacs and turning loops.
- Intersections are replaced with overpasses and underpasses as well as T-junctions.
Backyards of homes were preferably facing the street and sometimes the fronts of homes were facing one another, over common yards.[1][2]
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- ^ Neave, David; Neave, Susan (2010), "Hull", Pevsner Architectural Guides, p. 33