Russell Sage Foundation and Forest Hills Gardens.
An urban laboratory in New York between social determinism and the standardization of housing
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Rusell Sage Foundation, Forest Hills Gardens, New York, Neighborhood unit, Social determinism, HousingAbstract
In 1909 the Russell Sage Foundation, an entity created by Olivia Rusell Sage, promoted an economic and social experiment consisting of the implantation of a model suburb town in the neighborhood of Queens (New York): Forest Hills Gardens. This was the first American garden-city and synthesizes an exercise of balance: between philanthropy and speculation, between nature and city, community and privacy, segregation and inclusion, urban design and social determinism, industrialization and art, and standardization and identity. In Forest Hills Gardens, the contradictions that often arise between what one does and what one wants to do are evident, in a moment of transcendental change in the way of city making in the United States encouraged by technological advances.
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