Radburn, New Jersey

Radburn, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
A diagram showing the street network structure of Radburn and its nested hierarchy. Separate pedestrian paths run through the green spaces between the culs-de-sac and through the central green spine (The shaded area was not built)
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Coordinates: 40°56′33″N 74°07′00″W / 40.94250°N 74.11667°W / 40.94250; -74.11667Coordinates: 40°56′33″N 74°07′00″W / 40.94250°N 74.11667°W / 40.94250; -74.11667
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Bergen
Borough	Fair Lawn
Elevation	95 ft (29 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
GNIS feature ID	879582

Radburn
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
A Radburn cul-de-sac
Location	Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Built	1928
Architect	Clarence Stein, Henry Wright
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival
NRHP Reference #	75001118
NJRHP #	482
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 16, 1975
Designated NHLD	April 5, 2005
Designated NJRHP	October 15, 1974

Radburn is an unincorporated community located within Fair Lawn in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

Radburn was founded in 1929 as "a town for the motor age". Its planners, Clarence Stein and Henry Wright, and its landscape architect Marjorie Sewell Cautley aimed to incorporate modern planning principles, which were then being introduced into England's Garden Cities, following ideas advocated by urban planners Ebenezer Howard, Sir Patrick Geddes and Clarence Perry. Perry's neighbourhood unit concept was well-formulated by the time Radburn was planned, being informed by Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, New York (1909–1914), a garden-city development of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Radburn was explicitly designed to separate traffic by mode, with a pedestrian path system that does not cross any major roads at grade. Radburn introduced the largely residential "superblock" and is credited with incorporating some of the earliest culs-de-sac in the United States.

There are approximately 3,100 people in 670 families residing in Radburn. They live in 469 single-family homes, 48 townhouses, 30 two-family houses, and a 93-unit apartment complex.