ABSTRACT

This 6,000-resident neighborhood in the Borough of Queens, New York, was

inspired by the 19th-century “Garden City” movement pioneered in commu-

nities near central London. The movement advocated self-sufficient, mixed

use suburbs as an alternative to the factory towns of the time. In 1909, the

Russell Sage Foundation hired landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.

and architect Grosvenor Atterbury to conduct an experiment in townmaking

by blending progressive planning ideas, an elaborate landscape palette, and