Clarence Perry's Neighborhood Unit Concept (1929) was published in which plan?

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Clarence Perry's Neighborhood Unit Concept (1929) was published in which plan?

Clarence Perry’s Neighborhood Unit concept is a planning idea that envisions creating self-contained neighborhoods organized around a central elementary school, with a walkable radius and integrated residential, commercial, and recreational uses to foster community and efficient land use. This concept was published in the Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs, a regional planning study that examined how growth around New York should be directed and how neighborhoods could be designed to fit into a larger urban region. The survey presented Perry’s ideas as a practical building block for shaping the form and function of communities within the broader plan for the New York region. The Chicago plan and other options relate to different contexts or later, broader plans, not this specific publication.

Clarence Perry’s Neighborhood Unit concept is a planning idea that envisions creating self-contained neighborhoods organized around a central elementary school, with a walkable radius and integrated residential, commercial, and recreational uses to foster community and efficient land use.

This concept was published in the Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs, a regional planning study that examined how growth around New York should be directed and how neighborhoods could be designed to fit into a larger urban region. The survey presented Perry’s ideas as a practical building block for shaping the form and function of communities within the broader plan for the New York region. The Chicago plan and other options relate to different contexts or later, broader plans, not this specific publication.

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