Radburn

Radburn, NJ became a National Historic Landmark Site in 2005. It was planned in the late 1920’s by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright as a model city, after the English Garden City model of Ebenezer Howard. The plan called for a town of about 30,000 inhabitants, with mixed housing, industry and farming. The City Housing Corparation started construction in 1929. Unfortunately, the stockmarket crash and following depression caused it to go bankrupt, after only a small part was completed. However, the completed part is still functioning as originally intended.