The Radburn enclave of Fair Lawn was built to manage a menace. "A town for the motor age," Radburn flipped the suburban standard. The goal was to reduce the need for roads. Rather than use a ...

All through the 1950s and 1960s, as I grew up in Fair Lawn, my beloved hometown in northern New Jersey, almost every one of our immediate neighbors, the dozens of families around our block and those ...

On Oct. 8, 1927, a group of progressive city and town planners gathered at a farm in Netcong to discuss a preliminary scheme for a radical new community — so new it did not yet have a name. That ...