Fifty Years Later, Greenhills is Still Green

16 October 2000 - 8:00am

A lasting legacy of the New Deal, Greenhills was created in the 1930s as an experiment in community planning and design.

"Greenhills wasintended to be a national model - a self-containedneighborhood where residents could work, shop, play,dine out, go to school, see doctors and worship onlysteps from their homes. And while it fell short of some goals - plans to attract light industry, for example, never materialized - the village of 4,300 today remains true to planners' overarching objective: creating a community where land-use decisions could help shape tight-knit, small-town values."

Source: The Cincinnati Post, October 11, 2000
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.