ABSTRACT
American architect Clarence Perry related the need for identity to a geographic neighborhood community to the human lifecycle. For Perry, a primary challenge was to create spaces that would best suit families with children. His solution was the neighborhood unit. He argued that there should be enough residential land in a neighborhood unit to house families with 800 to 1,500 children. One or more shopping districts, adequate for the population to be served, should be laid out in the circumference of the unit. The unit should be provided with a special street system, each highway being proportioned to its probable traffic load. In both design and landscape treatment the common and the central buildings constitute an interesting and significant neighborhood community center. It will be observed that the plan of buildings encloses 53 per cent of the total area devoted to open space in the form of central courts.
