San Jose, Florida

'General Plan Showing the Proposed Layout for a New Community on the St. John's River at Jacksonville', 1925 in the John Nolen papers at Cornell University, available in glorious fine-grain detail here.

 These are the the reserves I've uncovered with my eagle eye:

 This is where this site was planned to be but it was not created in this way.

This section of San Jose is so completely redesigned that I can't even tell where this would have been, had it been created.

 This area is here and has been completely redesigned from Nolen's original.

These are, I think, in this general vicinity but the open space doesn't seem to fit the space Nolen planned. The northern section has been replanned. 

Cité-Jardin Kapelleveld

Just begun getting to grips with this Belgian plan by Louis Van Der Swaelmen. The small circles within the blocks are, apparently, sandpits for infants. Here's a google translated footnote from Anne Lambrichs' 2001 article on Belgian 'garden cities': 'Van der Swaelmen included in the garden city many sports fields - exercise area, three tennis courts and a football field; it has prioritized traffic lanes according to a very complex system going from public to private: alleys bordered by low hedges, plantations and common gardens; small interior paths bordered by trees winding inside the islets and forming a secondary network allowing access to the playgrounds and interior courtyards, to cross the whole city, to remove litter without cluttering the streets, to repair water, gas and electricity pipes and hide the back of houses.'
Translated, sort of, from Anne Lambrichs, ‘Les Cités-Jardins en Belgique', Ciudades, 6 (2000-2001) p. 65.

Union Park Gardens, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.

I have a backlog of material to blog about, but it's not as though internal reserves haven't been heavily on my mind - as Robert Freestone and I are currently working on our book on this topic, to be published next year. This subdivision is one 'newly unearthed' example of our sphere of interest which I had cause to do some minor (and I admit, ugly) photoshop work to visualise what I was talking about in communication with Delaware's history society, so I thought I may as well dump it here as well - considering I've been very lax in the posts lately (and I have so much Launceston material to upload!).

Bruce Robertson's book on John Nolen tells us that Nolen was hired in 1918 by Wilmington's Chamber of Commerce to produce a plan for a 58-acre housing area in one of the USA's most densely populated cities (p. 143). 'Street trees and sidewalks added to the community's pleasant appearance, while the curvilinear streets economised road construction and allowed a measure of traffic control' (p. 144). 

Of the two internal reserves identified here, neither seems to have pulled through incredibly well. The southerly one (on Geddes Alley - Nolen and Patrick Geddes were in frequent correspondence at this time) appears from google maps to be a series of shelters, or one big shelter perhaps, for car parking. The northern one which was clearly at some point a grassed (or at least open) area has also suffered (or whatever you want to call it) a similar fate, but some greenery remains, including from what I can tell within the western accessway.  

I'd love to visit these one day... the neighbourhood itself looks delightful. Fingers crossed on a response from the historical society...