A Model Garden City is Still Thriving

The Feds named it "Special Project No. 1." but residents called it "Greenbelt." It was the first experiment of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "garden city" movement. "[T]e city of 23,000 also symbolizes the things lost, tangible and intangible - stores within walking distance, small "pocket parks" and, perhaps, neighborliness itself - as bigger homes on larger lots more distant from central cities and business strips became the norm in post-war suburbia."