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Welcome to The Radburn Association:a town for the motor ageRadburn is a beautiful place to live and call home. A supportive community. Many generations living together and sharing our beautiful green space.
Radburn, a planned community, was started in 1929 by the City Housing Corporation from the plans developed by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright. The concept of the "new town" grew out of the older planned communities in Europe and the work of Ebenezer Howard and Patrick Geddes. The intent was to build a community which made provisions for the complexities of modern life, while still providing the amenities of open space, community service and economic viability. |
The Association contracted with Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects (MNLA) to create a master plan document for Association use in planning and guidance for future projects. The master plan provides a contextual history of the landscape created by Marjorie Sewell Cautley and how we can work with her vision and modern landscape and engineering ideas to maintain, preserve, and improve our parks for future enjoyment.
The master plan includes several case studies of key areas of the parks to identify appropriate approaches to the issues identified by members of Radburn, including rehabilitating certain areas of the parks, erosion control, planting beds, and the tree canopy. We've already incorporated some of the master plan recommendations in several areas as of January 2022:
- erosion control in A park near the gazebo (installing rocks and adjusting slope/plantings to reduce erosion and runoff towards the tunnel);
- access to A park gazebo and replacing damaged floor under gazebo with appropriate materials (replacing damaged asphalt path with accessible concrete walkway and a stone inlay under the gazebo structure); and
- B park pool plantings (revitalizing the B park pool planting bed incorporating native plants and site appropriate plantings - the plantings will occur after pool work is completed in Spring 2022).