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Radburn is an unincorporated community located within Fair Lawn in Bergen County, New Jersey,

United States.[4]

Radburn was founded in 1929 as "a town for the motor age".[5] Its planners, Clarence Stein and Henry
Wright, and its landscape architect Marjorie Sewell Cautley[6] aimed to incorporate modern planning
principles, which were then being introduced into England's Garden Cities, following ideas advocated by
urban planners Ebenezer Howard, Sir Patrick Geddes[7] and Clarence Perry. Perry's neighbourhood unit
concept was well-formulated by the time Radburn was planned, being informed by Forest Hills Gardens,
Queens, New York (19091914), a garden-city development of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Radburn was explicitly designed to separate traffic by mode,[7] with a pedestrian path system that does
not cross any major roads at grade. Radburn introduced the largely residential "superblock" and is
credited with incorporating some of the earliest culs-de-sac in the United States.

There are approximately 3,100 people in 670 families residing in Radburn.[7] They live in 469 single-
family homes, 48 townhouses, 30 two-family houses, and a 93-unit apartment complex.[7]

Radburn's 149 acres (0.60 km2) include 23 acres (93,000 m2) of interior parks, four tennis courts, three
baseball fields, two softball fields, two swimming pools, and an archery plaza. Young children and their
parents can make use of two toddler playgroup areas, two playgrounds, and a toddler bathing pool.[7]

There is also a community center which houses administrative offices, library, gymnasium, clubroom,
pre-school, and maintenance shops.

For census purposes, Radburn is mostly a subset of Census Tract 171 in Bergen County, New Jersey.[9]

Welwyn Garden City was founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard in 1920 following his previous experiment in
Letchworth Garden City. Howard had called for the creation of planned towns that were to combine the
benefits of the city and the countryside and to avoid the disadvantages of both. The Garden Cities and
Town Planning Association had defined a garden city as

"a town designed for healthy living and industry of a size that makes possible a full measure of social life
but not larger, surrounded by a rural belt; the whole of the land being in public ownership, or held in
trust for the community"[3]
In 1919, Howard arranged for the purchase of land in Hertfordshire that had already been identified as a
suitable site. On 29 April 1920 a company, Welwyn Garden City Limited, was formed to plan and build
the garden city, chaired by Sir Theodore Chambers. Louis de Soissons was appointed as architect and
town planner, C.B Purdom as finance director and Frederic Osborn as secretary.[3] The first house was
occupied just before Christmas 1920.[4]

SITES is the most comprehensive system for developing sustainable landscapes.

SITES is used by landscape architects, designers, engineers, architects, developers, policy-makers and
others to align land development and management with innovative sustainable design.

Land is a crucial component of the built environment and can be planned, designed, developed and
maintained to protect and enhance the benefits we derive from healthy functioning landscapes. SITES
helps create ecologically resilient communities and benefits the environment, property owners, and
local and regional communities and economies.

What is the hierarchy of roads?

The street hierarchy is an urban planning technique for laying out road networks that exclude
automobile through-traffic from developed areas. It is conceived as a hierarchy of roads that embeds
the link importance of each road type in the network topology (the connectivity of the nodes to each
other).

What is the function of the Arterial Road?

An arterial road or arterial thoroughfare is a high-capacity urban road. The primary function of an
arterial road is to deliver traffic from collector roads to freeways or expressways, and between urban
centres at the highest level of service possible. Speed limits typically range from 45 to 55 mph.

Collector Road

A low-to-moderate-capacity road that moves traffic from local streets to arterial roads. Designed to
provide access to residential properties. Could include signaled intersections, traffic circles, or stop signs
at intersecting roadways. Speed limits typically range from 25 to 45 mph.

What is Economical and Safest?


A dead end is a street with only one inlet/outlet. A dead end is also known as a cul-de-sac, literally
"bottom of a sack,"

The Jose Rizal Memorial Monument in Rizal Park is the Kilometer Zero of all the roads in the City of
Manila.

The first road numbering system in the Philippines was adopted in 1930 by the administration of
President Manuel Quezon, and was very much similar to U.S. Highway numbering system.

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