Amy C. Beal
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039157
- eISBN:
- 9780252097133
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039157.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter looks at Beyer's life in Sunnyside Gardens in the late 1920s. Sunnyside Gardens was the center of Beyer's social life. Friends in Beyer's community during this time included not just ...
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This chapter looks at Beyer's life in Sunnyside Gardens in the late 1920s. Sunnyside Gardens was the center of Beyer's social life. Friends in Beyer's community during this time included not just social worker Bertha Reynolds and Beyer's niece Frida—who lived with Beyer for some period around 1930—but also the influential piano teacher Abby Whiteside, and Reynolds's cousin Erdix Winslow Capen, who was also a frequent visitor to the community. Her friendship with Reynolds seems to have brought her into a world of political activism and engagement with social and racial issues of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Beyer's political engagement during this period embraced both national and international developments, and she and Reynolds were active in the Town Hall Club, an important cultural and political center in Manhattan.Less
This chapter looks at Beyer's life in Sunnyside Gardens in the late 1920s. Sunnyside Gardens was the center of Beyer's social life. Friends in Beyer's community during this time included not just social worker Bertha Reynolds and Beyer's niece Frida—who lived with Beyer for some period around 1930—but also the influential piano teacher Abby Whiteside, and Reynolds's cousin Erdix Winslow Capen, who was also a frequent visitor to the community. Her friendship with Reynolds seems to have brought her into a world of political activism and engagement with social and racial issues of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Beyer's political engagement during this period embraced both national and international developments, and she and Reynolds were active in the Town Hall Club, an important cultural and political center in Manhattan.
Kristin E. Larsen
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781501702464
- eISBN:
- 9781501706141
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501702464.001.0001
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
This biography of Clarence Samuel Stein comprehensively examines his built and unbuilt projects and his intellectual legacy as a proponent of the “Garden City” for a modern age. This examination of ...
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This biography of Clarence Samuel Stein comprehensively examines his built and unbuilt projects and his intellectual legacy as a proponent of the “Garden City” for a modern age. This examination of Stein's life and legacy focuses on four critical themes: his collaborative ethic in envisioning policy, design, and development solutions; promotion and implementation of “investment housing;” his revolutionary approach to community design, as epitomized in the Radburn Idea; and his advocacy of communitarian regionalism. His cutting-edge projects such as Sunnyside Gardens in New York City; Baldwin Hills Village in Los Angeles; and Radburn, New Jersey, his “town for the motor age,” continue to inspire community designers and planners in the United States and around the world. Stein was among the first architects to integrate new design solutions and support facilities into large-scale projects intended primarily to house working-class people, and he was a cofounder of the Regional Planning Association of America. As a planner, designer, and, at times, financier of new housing developments, Stein wrestled with the challenges of creating what today we would term “livable,” “walkable,” and “green” communities during the ascendency of the automobile. He managed these challenges by partnering private capital with government funding, as well as by collaborating with colleagues in planning, architecture, real estate, and politics.Less
This biography of Clarence Samuel Stein comprehensively examines his built and unbuilt projects and his intellectual legacy as a proponent of the “Garden City” for a modern age. This examination of Stein's life and legacy focuses on four critical themes: his collaborative ethic in envisioning policy, design, and development solutions; promotion and implementation of “investment housing;” his revolutionary approach to community design, as epitomized in the Radburn Idea; and his advocacy of communitarian regionalism. His cutting-edge projects such as Sunnyside Gardens in New York City; Baldwin Hills Village in Los Angeles; and Radburn, New Jersey, his “town for the motor age,” continue to inspire community designers and planners in the United States and around the world. Stein was among the first architects to integrate new design solutions and support facilities into large-scale projects intended primarily to house working-class people, and he was a cofounder of the Regional Planning Association of America. As a planner, designer, and, at times, financier of new housing developments, Stein wrestled with the challenges of creating what today we would term “livable,” “walkable,” and “green” communities during the ascendency of the automobile. He managed these challenges by partnering private capital with government funding, as well as by collaborating with colleagues in planning, architecture, real estate, and politics.
