Radburn, New Jersey began construction in 1928 and was designed by which pair?

• A. Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe
• B. Clarence Stein and Henry Wright
• C. Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan
• D. Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses

Answer: (B)

Radburn embodies early garden-city planning adapted for a suburb. Construction began in 1928, and the master plan was created by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright, leaders of the Regional Planning Association of America. Their design emphasizes a pedestrian-oriented layout: homes arranged around green courtyards with a network of footpaths that separate pedestrians from vehicular streets, and a superblock/cul-de-sac pattern that concentrates traffic on peripheral roads while preserving safe, car-free routes to shops, schools, and parks. This "neighborhood unit" approach aimed to foster community and safety through thoughtful separation of uses and movement. The other listed pairs are associated with different movements or eras—Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe with modernist architecture; Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan with early U.S. architectural practice; Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses with later urbanist debates—so the designers of Radburn were Clarence Stein and Henry Wright.