Smart suburb planning in NYC, 100 years ago
I recently moved to New York City (Brooklyn, to be specific) and in an interesting twist came across a Slate magazine slideshow (Forest Hills Gardens) via a tweet from one of my favourite Toronto-based publications, Spacing magazine. The article/photo essay details the principles enacted by turn of the 19th-century Forest Hills Gardens community, a suburb 20 minutes from Manhattan that is transit-oriented, walkable, and features mixed-use zoning and a variety of single-family dwellings, from attached to freestanding.
At nearly $1,000,000 for one of the less flamboyant homes, though, I doubt that this community is still living up to its intention of providing options for low-income buyers.