Monday, May 9, 2011

Chatham Village, Pittsburgh

'My ideas for Scottish housing were influenced strongly by the brilliant landscape architect Henry Wright, a 1901 Penn architecture graduate, and the architect-planner Clarence Stein. They had invented the superblock, first employed in Radburn, New Jersey, later on in Chatham Village in Pittsburgh and Baldwin Hills Village near Los Angeles.'
Ian McHarg A Quest for Life: An Autobiography John Wiley & Sons New York 1996, p. 107

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