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Community Architect - The Life and Vision of Clarence S. Stein (Hardcover)
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Community Architect - The Life and Vision of Clarence S. Stein (Hardcover)
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Clarence 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.
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