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Historic Urban Planned Communities

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All of these urban neighborhoods were once pristine suburban subdivisions with a single developer or small group of developers. We will locate and post photographs of these neighborhoods when first developed, and today, to underscore the point that today's Old Urbanism was yesteryear's New Urbanism, and therefore that today's New Urbanism, in due time, will be tomorrow's Old Urbanism -- that time is the most necessary ingredient to create the "authentic urbanism" that many critics of New Urbanism cite in false opposition to NU.

Boston

• Back Bay

Chicago

• Hyde Park (Paul Cornell, 1880s)
• Logan Square
• Rogers Park
• Wicker Park (Mary Lee Stewart, 1870-1891)

Los Angeles

• Alvarado Terrace in Pico-Union
• Baldwin Village
• Echo Park
• Venice Beach

New York City

• Jackson Heights, Queens
• Harlem, Manhattan
• Prospect Park South, Brooklyn
• Steinway, Astoria, Queens
• Hoboken, New Jersey (Colonel John Stevens and heirs, 1838-)

Philadelphia/Camden

• Fairview in Camden (was Yorkship Garden Village)
• Girard Estate (1906-16, Board of City Trusts)
• Northern Liberties

San Francisco/Bay Area

• Hayes Valley
• Sunset (Inner & Outer)

Washington, D.C.

• Mount Pleasant

Elsewhere

• Craddock, Portsmouth, Va.

Resources:
old photos nationwide http://memory.loc.gov
old photos Phila http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org

Last edited by pc. Based on work by cnu.  Page last modified on January 02, 2008