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Radburn is an unincorporated community located within Fair Lawn in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.〔(Locality Search ), State of New Jersey. Accessed March 7, 2015.〕 Radburn was founded in 1929 as "a town for the motor age".〔(History ) from the Radburn Association website〕 Its planners, Clarence Stein and Henry Wright, and its landscape architect Marjorie Sewell Cautley〔(Marjorie L. Sewell Cautley, Landscape Architect to the Garden City Movement ) By: Thaisa Way, accessed June 7, 2006〕 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〔(Introduction ) from the Radburn Association website〕 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 (1909–1914), a garden-city development of the Russell Sage Foundation. Radburn was explicitly designed to separate traffic by mode,〔 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.〔(Cul-de-Sacs: Suburban Dream or Dead End? ), a June 2006 National Public Radio story〕 ==Statistics== There are approximately 3,100 people in 670 families residing in Radburn.〔 They live in 469 single-family homes, 48 townhouses, 30 two-family houses and a 93-unit apartment complex.〔 Radburn's include of interior parks, four tennis courts, three hardball 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.〔 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.〔( Census 2000 Profile for Census Tract 171 ) in Bergen County, New Jersey〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Radburn, New Jersey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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